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We Might Expect Intelligent Life And Technological Communities To Have Emerged In The Universe Billions Of Years Ago. Given That Human Society Is Only A Few Thousand Years Old, And That Human Technological Society Is Mere Centuries Old, The Nature Of A Community With Millions Or Even Billions Of Years Of Technological And Social Progress Cannot Even Be Imagined. ... What Would We Make Of A Billion-year-old Technological Community?

The Birth Of Science As We Know It Arguably Began With Isaac Newton's Formulation Of The Laws Of Gravitation And Motion. It Is No Exaggeration To Say That Physics Was Reborn In The Early 20th-century With The Twin Revolutions Of Quantum Mechanics And The Theory Of Relativity.

Cancer Is Not Something Confined To Human Beings. It's Found In All Multi Cellular Organisms Where The Adult Cells Proliferate, So It's Widespread In The Biosphere. It's A Phenomenon That Is Deeply Related To The History Of Life Itself, So By Studying Cancer I Think We Can Illuminate The History Of Life Itself And Vice Versa.

Studying Cancer Could Provide Huge Insights For Astrobiologists Into The Nature Of Life Itself.

If You Get A Drill And Drill Down 5km Beneath The Ground, It's Teeming With Life - Millions Of Tiny Living Fossils. They Resemble The Earliest Life Forms And Suggest That Life Started Under The Ground. The Bible Talks Of Eden As A Sunny Parkland With White Fluffy Clouds, But It Probably Ascended From The Region That We Now Associate With Hell.