Extraterrestrial
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"I'm gonna send him to outa space, to find another race."--"Chase the Devil" (1976) by Lee Perry and Max Romeo "Copernicus, Atlas his successor, is of opinion, the earth is a planet, moves and shines to others, as the moon doth to us. Digges, Gilbert, Keplerus, Origanus, and others, defend this hypothesis of his in sober sadness, and that the moon is inhabited: if it be so that the earth is a moon, then are we also giddy, vertiginous and lunatic within this sublunary maze."--The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton |
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Extraterrestrial (or extra-terrestrial) may refer to any object or being beyond (extra-) the planet Earth (terrestrial). It is derived from the Latin Root extra ("outside", "outwards") and terrestris ("earthly", "of or relating to the Earth").
It may also refer to:
- Extraterrestrial life, in scientific context, hypothetical life that exists outside Earth
- Extraterrestrials in fiction
- Outer space, the location of things that are "outside Earth"
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1982 film by Steven Spielberg