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Sorin Adam Matei

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Alien Robot Love: Earths First Close Encounter of the Alien Kind Will Be More Toaster Than Number Six

Boy, oh, boy. The aliens are coming…

Alien Robot Love: Earths First Close Encounter of the Alien Kind Will Be More Toaster Than Number Six
Forget little green men, Vulcans or super-sexy Number Sixs slinking about the verse in little red cocktail dresses—some scientists say our first encounter with E.T. will likely involve a simple robot. For proof, says Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, you need only to look at our own species advances in robotics. But then the scientists in this MSNBC Battlestar Galactica puff piece get a little crazy. Human-cyborg relations? Marriage? Thatll only work in Massachusetts

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