astrobiology

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:18 PM -0400 5/6/05, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
>On a quite different matter (work-related, really!) I stumbled across the
>following section of Yahoo Groups. I have deleted the bottom five or six
>entries, most of which were closed groups with no obvious relation to the
>subject we are talking about.
>
>-- Mark A. Mandel
>[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

On #3:  For a while back in the 70's there was some (necessarily
somewhat speculative) discussion of "exolinguistics", which is of
course the study of the properties of extraterrestrial linguistic
systems and the speakers thereof.  Googling on this, I find 70 hits,
including
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/Exolinguistics.PDF   (from a
1984 piece in Omni)

Larry

>
>http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Science/Biology/Exobiology
>Group Listings
>1 DrRichBoylanReports
>1906 Members, Archives: Membership required
>Factual reports from Dr. Richard Boylan, one of the foremost researchers on
>Star Visitors, UFOs, encounters with Star People, and the human condition
>post-contact.
>
>2 UFOFacts
>903 Members, Archives: Membership required
>A factual information reports and sharing of personal experiences list
>related to UFOs, Star Visitors, personal encounters with Star People, and
>the personal and societal changes ...(more)
>
>3 exobiology
>93 Members, Archives: Public
>This club is dedicated to Exobiology. The is a growing field, but there is
>are only a few of exobiologists in the world. If you're interested in
>learning stuff on exobiology, then ...(more)
>
>4 Exobiology2
>36 Members, Archives: Membership required
>This group is for the serious discussion of life elsewhere in the universe,
>and related topics. The level could be from light to precise scientific
>discussion. Please... no UFO weirdos ...(more)
>
>5 grupoviu
>36 Members, Archives: Membership required
>Grupo de discussão acerca da possibilidade da existência de vida
>extraterrestre, mantido por professores e alunos de astronomia da UFRJ.
>
>6 Celestian_Alliance
>18 Members, Archives: Membership required
>Believers of Inteligent Life throughout the Universe. This is a group of
>members supporting information of our progressive galactic role. Interested
>in operations of habitating planets, ...(more)
>
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