Lengthy piece in the Guardian following up on the Hawking warning against the potential disaster of humanity meeting space aliens: Is Stephen Hawking Right.
The article also goes into the topic of some forms of life here on Earth:
“In our naive and parochial way, we have named these things extremophiles, which shows prejudice – we’re normal, everything else is extreme,” says Ian Stewart, a mathematician at Warwick University and author of What Does A Martian Look Like? “From the point of view of a creature that lives in boiling water, we’re extreme because we live in much milder temperatures. We’re at least as extreme compared to them as they are compared to us.”
