Something Incredible Waiting to Be Known

The search for intelligent life reaches farther than any NASA mission

Jaime Green
9 min readApr 11, 2018

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Photo by NASA on Unsplash

In the search for life beyond Earth, questions of biology blur into something bigger. We slip from questions of molecules arranging themselves into life to questions of humanity and meaning — what is life, what is intelligence — and philosophy. What does it mean if we’re alone…

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Jaime Green

Writer & editor | BuzzFeed, Brooklyn Magazine, Slate, Longreads, &c.