The other day, Rare posted a short item that got me thinking. It was about the relentless scientific search for what we used to call “extra terrestrial life.” As in, life not of this planet.
Blame Steven Spielberg for the phrase's popularity and his imitators for its exhaustion. When he launched his 1982 blockbuster, he didn't take any chances, giving us both the abbreviation and the word in the title of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
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