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For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. Novelist H.G. Wells described nightmarish squid-like Martian invaders in The War of the Worlds, while the ...

Avi Loeb has suggested that humans themselves may be 'intelligent, self-replicating and self-repairing autonomous probes' ...