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OCR: THE SEARCH FOR LIFE METEORITES THE SETI PROGRAM THE SEARCH FOR LIFE In a book revealingly entitled "The Discovery of the Celestial World: Hypotheses Concerning the Inhabitants, the Planets, and the Production of Planetary Worlds," the great 17th-century scholar and astronomer Christiaan Huygens wrote: "To consider the planets as vast deserts where not one of these creatures lives which testify to the existence of a divine architect, would be to reduce their beauty and their dignity to a rank well below that of the Earth. This would be entirely unreasonable." In regard to the The conditions for life appearance of beings that might inhabit other planets, he added, "their entire body and each of its parts may be rather different from our own. For it is ridiculous to think that a rational soul could not dwell in shapes other than our own." MARS BETAT