Between Titan's Icy Surface and Blazing Core, There Just May Be Life

A few weeks back I blogged about SETICon, the first-ever conference held around the central theme of the search for intelligent life "out there" -- not quite a science conference, but not really a sci-fi convention either. SETICon was not only unique, but it was also a blast. Bring on SETICon II! Despite years of searching, Klingons and Asgard, Daleks and Vorlons are still firmly entrenched within the realm of science fiction -- for not only do we know of no intelligent life in our galaxy outside of that on Earth, we know of no life period. Finding even a microbe would be huge. (The find would be huge, the microbe would be small -- hence the "micro" portion of the word. We have no expectation of finding gargantuan Martian astronaut-sucking amoebae, as in Angry Red Planet.) While we may have to look to the stars for signs of intelligence,