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Alien Imagination
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Several theories have been proposed about the possible basis of alien life from a biochemical, evolutionary or morphological viewpoint.
Alien life, such as bacteria, has been theorized by scientists such as Carl Sagan to exist in the Solar System and quite possibly throughout the Universe. No samples have been found, although there is some controversy about possible traces of life in Martian material (life on Mars), of which the most famous are on the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite. The term traces its etymological roots to two Latin words: extra ("beyond", or "not of") and terrestrial ("of or belonging to Earth"). Despite the term's popularity, its antonym, extracelestial ("belonging to or from Earth"), is rarely used.
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