According to a special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, scientists want us to take seriously the possibility that extra terrestrial life forms exist, and to start preparing for possible contact with them.

Dr Martin Dominik of St Andrews School of Physics and Astronomy and Simon Conway Morris, an evolution specialist from the Department of Earth Scientists at Cambridge, debate the way we should think about ET's existence.

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