Idiot Savant Update 

So, it turns out Marilyn vos Savant has backed away from her claim that there is no alien life.
In Sunday's paper, she writes:
You recently assured a child that there are no such things as aliens visiting Earth from other planets. But do you believe that extraterrestrial life may exist?
It may. Here on Earth, life is based on carbon, which "happens" to be present in abundance. By this, I mean that the abundance may be why terrestrial life is based on carbon in the first place. It may not be necessary elsewhere. Planets with lower or higher temperatures might possibly have life based on other atoms. Not that this would be life as we know it. But we could still call it life. And if we found a planet with Earthly conditions--through the possibility is remote--I would almost expect to find life.

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