Posted on 02/11/2007 7:16:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A renowned astronomer and an internationally known science nonfiction writer, Jayawardhana received the 2003 Science Writing Award for popular science writing by a scientist. His primary research area is the formation and early evolution of stars, brown dwarfs, and planets, and he called the diversity of planets a mystery yet to be solved. He spent most of his time talking about planets orbiting stars other than our sun... The discovery of exoplanets raises the question of whether some of them might support extraterrestrial life... On earth, life is based on DNA and RNA, but Bernstein challenged his audience to think about the possibility of alternative ingredients for life. "[We] cannot count on Martian DNA to be like ours," he said. As well as focusing on the combination of genetic molecules that might give rise to E.T.-like aliens, Bernstein also advocated trying to conceive of alternate possibilities for forms of life out there.
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Empiricists, Theorists Clash in Search for Alien Life
Fox News | Tuesday, February 6, 2007 | Leonard David of Space.com
Posted on 02/06/2007 12:08:20 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1780129/posts
There is life somewhere out there and we need billions
and gazillions of funding ot find it.
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