Building a Better Alien

How to Create a Scientifically Plausible Alien<br />http://io9.com/5784971/how-to-create-a-scientifically-plausible-alien-l… /><br />National Academy report: Weird Life<br />http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11919… /><br />Galactic Habitable Zone and higher chances of inhabitable planets closer in toword the galactic core, only problem is its a bad neighbor hood with all the super novas<br />http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/articles/living-in-the-galactic-danger-zon… /><br />Sci-Fi Factor site; article is rambling and disjointed so thankfully its brief. Still there were some good ideas.<br />http://scifi.fictionfactor.com/articles/creatingaliens.html<br /><br />This one was less helpful and more cheese:<br />http://www.wikihow.com/Create-Your-Own-Alien-Species<br /><br />15 memorable aliens in SCi-Fi<br />http://listverse.com/2008/08/13/15-memorable-alien-races-in-science-fic… /><br />