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LONDON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The British queen's astronomer says extraterrestrial aliens "could be staring us in the face" in a form we are simply unable to recognize.
Martin Rees, president of the Royal Society science group and astronomer to Queen Elizabeth II, said after hosting the national science academy's first conference extraterrestrial life in London that humans might not be able to recognize aliens even if they were looking right at them, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday.
"They could be staring us in the face and we just don't recognize them," he said. "The problem is that we're looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology.
"I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains," Rees said.
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