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Aliens Part II: Silicon Breath, Biological Grey Goo, & Our Galactic Zoo

The math says they exist, but what do they actually look like?

In the second half of our Big Story on extraterrestrial life, the boys move past the equations and into the messy, terrifying reality of alien biology. Forget "Little Green Men" - we’re talking about silicon-based lifeforms that literally cough out grains of sand and civilizations so small they could hide inside a single asteroid.

Your fearless co-hosts also (attempt to) tackle the "un-happy outcome" of first contact: biological incompatibility. It turns out that meeting an alien might not lead to a handshake, but rather a…

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