Journal of Alta California

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PO BRONSON

“The Planet-Hunting Machine,” page 22

Were you skeptical going into your story about planet hunting that there is other life out there?

Not so much skeptical as blind to the very premise. I hadn’t considered it, because I thought outer space was just an infinite scatterfield of inorganic rocks and gases. I thought all the television dramas of my childhood filled with civilizations on other planets was just wishful dreaming. And I’d been taught that the origin of life, here on Earth, was all

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