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Let Ke$ha explain the search for intelligent life on other planets

By Charlie Jane Anders Published January 6, 2011, 10:00 am ET

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This is music video parody heaven, right here — a glitter-lipped songstress sings about the difficulties in finding life in the universe, in a spoof of Ke$ha’s “We R Who We R.” What rhymes with “prokaryote-ote-ote-otes”? [via Greg Laden]

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