Putting Zysman and Wallace aside, however, it is still possible that the Earth has been shaped by extraterrestrial forces in ways that we are only beginning to grasp.
But it also discloses an enigmatic void in its own strange, hectic little love story: almost as if extraterrestrial forces are preparing this ground for some uncanny incursion.
One must turn to paleontology in its own right to explain those changes, which might well involve extinctions brought about by extraterrestrial forces (e.g., comets) or new kinds of selection operating only at levels higher than the individual organism.
And Goldman Sachs's president, Gary Cohn, opined sagely, as if unstoppable extraterrestrial forces were at work, that a crackdown on reckless behaviour by banks would force financiers to establish more unregulated hedge funds.
A government conspiracy and hostile extraterrestrial forces were being blamed yesterday for the news that The X-Files, the blockbuster television series that made paranoia popular, is to be axed.
One must turn to paleontology in its own right to explain these changes, which might well involve extinctions brought about by extraterrestrial forces (e.g., comets) or new kinds of selection operating only at levels higher than the individual organism (see above Levels of selection).
So: in the near future, Earth faces an extraterrestrial invasion force of wildly flailing metallic octopus things.
Or suppose you turn the gods into eerie special effects: they would seem like extraterrestrial psychic forces from "Star Trek".
"District 9," starring a cast of unknowns, is about an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slumlike conditions on Earth.
