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From: mccarthy@uiucuxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Non-carbon based life
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 18:04:00 EDT
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Written 12:19 pm  Aug  3, 1987 by chiaraviglio@husc4.HARVARD.EDU
>In article <265@askja.UUCP> frisk@askja.UUCP (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
>>     What is life?

Life (or rather, biology) is anything that isn't astronomical, geographical,
or meteorological.

Or so says Carl Sagan.
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