As we come across many milestones in science, another quiet one has recently snuck in too. As of February this year, we have officially exceeded a thousand extra-solar planets & counting. This inevitably begs the question of life. And an inquiry into life on other planets often brings with it many fallacies (many-times perpetrated by science dweebs themselves), as much as by little green UFO enthusiasts. Many of these fallacies stem directly from an anthromorphocentric view and an inability to ever escape from it, when forming scientific queries. While/Whether the scientists working on these projects might choose to simplify their language (if they're even aware of it) in order to popularize their understanding, they do a great disservice to understanding the subject & approach for generations by stymieing the pursuit of science.
