xenophile

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  • They were implied to be perverted xenophile lovers, out to sabotage humanity's genetic purity through genetic admixture.
  • On the one hand, religious institutions, human 'purity' and supremacy groups, and opportunist political parties will try to introduce bans on xenopregnancy, xenosexuality, interstellar emigration, and other hallmarks of future interstellar liberalism, while xenophile academics, interstellar explorers, diplomatic personnel, traders and everyday citizens will fight for greater alien-human social equality and pluralism.
  • Ethan Zuckerman writes a great piece about how Paul Simon's Graceland album came to be, with some of the historical context, backstory and being a xenophile. —  Pitos Blog» Pito Salas blogs about technology, life and everything
  • (If you argue that perhaps Mars is perfectly suited for some different kind of life, some hypothetical non-Earthlike “Mars life,” all I can reply is even the most rugged, xenophile, radiation-resistant cryophilic anaerobes we can imagine are going to have a hard time maintaining more than a toehold on current-day Mars, spending most of their time in a non-metabolic, frozen state, waiting for the times when conditions are right and water can be briefly liquid on the surface. —  AnalogSF,Dec2003
 

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