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HERE BE DRAGONS<br />

then there should be some basic similarities between what we see on<br />

Earth and what we may find elsewhere. How far might such similarities<br />

go Would they extend, for example, to the appearance of organisms<br />

with intelligence, curiosity, and a moral sense like our own<br />

These are the questions we explore in the next chapter.<br />

SUGGESTED READING<br />

Marcy, G., and P. Butler. "Discovery of Extrasolar Planets" [available at<br />

http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/~gmarcy/planetsearch/planet<br />

search.html].<br />

Angel, J.R.P., and N.J. Woolf. "Searching for Life on Other Planets."<br />

Scientific American, April 1996, 60-66.<br />

Croswell, K. Planet Quest: The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems.<br />

New York: Free Press, 1997.<br />

Schneider, J. "The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia" [available at<br />

http://www.obspm.fr/encyl/encycl.html].<br />

Penny, A.J. "Extra-Solar Planets" (a section of the website for the<br />

European Space Agency's "Darwin" space interferometer mission),<br />

[available at http://ast.star.rl.ac.uk/darwin/planets/welcome.html.]<br />

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