Silly me. I thought it was about finding blue dresses?
How about a search for intelligent life in the DNC?
If life is so special and unique to earth we should be seedng the solar system with it.
“Methane is produced in large quantities by microbes on Earth (including those in the bellies of cattle)”
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So basically they’re gonna look for little green men with major flatulence issues.
La times writers gotta be completely clueless bout biology and chemistry...where do they get those writers?...any penetrating questions in your ipad? la times should be renamed...”NEWS FOR DUMMIES” written by one of your own..
“It’s actually a very broad term that encompasses a broad variety of worlds. It includes hazy worlds like the Archean; it includes icy worlds like the ‘snowball Earth’ intervals; it includes anoxic worlds with exclusively microbial ecosystems; it includes worlds with complex and intelligent life; and it includes worlds that we haven’t even seen yet.”
I’m trying to imagine what “we haven’t seen yet” after reading such a breathtaking list of worlds that we apparently have already seen. Including those with intelligent life. Like Vulcans, I guess.
That’s some jackassery masquerading as science. I think the author of this article is in over his head and misunderstood something a scientist told him.
Idolatry: Searching for life on other planets, among other things.
Molecular oxygen (two oxygen atoms bonded together) is produced in massive amounts today by photosynthesizing algae, plants and microbes. But the photosynthetic mechanism is so complicated that scientists think it evolved only once on our own planet.
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Think about that and what it means for how rare life is.