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As  a  future  biologist, you  like  to  follow  news  events  within  many  areas  of  the scientific   community. In  August 2003, NASA  ( the  National  Aeronautics and  Space   Administration )  launched   its   Space   Infrared   Telescope  Facility  to study (among other things) the birth of galaxies. This has made you think about the types of findings NASA will discover.

You go to NASA's web site
(http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html) and read some of the news articles and features posted on the site. You send an editorial to the local newspaper that was featuring a story on this matter.  You send a response. In your editorial, you mention some of the implications if NASA finds some type of environment which could support a life form different from life as we know it on earth. You also discuss how such a discovery would change our definition of what it means to be alive. In other words, the characteristics of living things.