by Sam Jaffe
PROFESSION	Astrobiology Isn't a Dirty Word Anymore The Scientist 2004, 18(1):44 Published   19 January 2004

Bruce Jakosky has heard the jibes: "Jakosky's gone off the deep end." "Have you found any green men yet?" Or the most painful one: "What's it like to study a subject without a subject matter?" Such comments were common in the early days of astrobiology, a term coined by NASA just six years ago to denote the science of determining the origins of life here on Earth and beyond it.

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