U stvari, pitanje da li život postoji na drugim planetama postalo je toliko zakuvano, da je prouzrokovalo da jedan od američkih Očeva osnivača, Thomas Paine, bude nezvanično proteran u Evropu.
In fact, the question of whether life existed on other planets had become so hotly contested, it caused one of America's Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine, to be unofficially exiled to Europe.