How fitting, then, that evidence unearthed not far from Roswell suggests that life could indeed have come to earth from outer space.

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Taking that world and trying to shoehorn it into a world where flying aliens shoot heat beams out of their eyes, magical princesses have powers and gifts given to them by mythologial gods, with monsters invading Earth from outer space, is just not going to work.

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Last year, he hired undersea experts to scan the ocean floor to find the massive engines that propelled the Apollo 11's space capsule from Earth to outer space.

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And when the solar wind is stronger, it is better at shielding the earth from high-energy charged particles from outer space known as cosmic rays.

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In 1977, two unmanned scientific probes were launched from planet Earth into outer space.

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Each was created by a giant rock from outer space slamming into the earth.

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