ocr: 59 I - - THE SEARCHI FOR LIFE METEORITE THE SETIPROGRAM 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, W the great /th-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 appearan ...
