[Revolting cat!]

Then, kill all plants!

[Upstate NY Guy]

Way cool.

[dangus]

How will we find life among the stars? Looking for free oxygen (O2), a substance highly unlikely to find in nature, since it reacts with nearly everything not created by a reaction with it. It can only exist free if it is renewed by highly endothermic (energy-absorbing) reactions, such as created by plants.

[cripplecreek]

I personally think that when we truly move into space, we’ll be genetically altering ourselves to fit the planets we choose to live on in a narrow band of environments.

I was actually happy to see this play into a pretty decent sci fi flick i watched the other night. Just hope that the people don’t evolve into canibals specifically adapted to the ship like they did in “Pandorum”.

[Revolting cat!]

Some years ago, I read a magazine article, I don't remember where, perhaps it was in the Psychic Institute's newspaper, that said that (paraphrasing) "some of your co-workers may be alien plants from another planet". I should have kept it, but I placed it in the mailbox of my co-worker, who was a former Franciscan priest.

[TexasTransplant]

Name any Planet that we know of that can support Fire and that Planet will have Life on it

TT

[MHGinTN]

Whne they figure out what kind of forests are on Mars, perhaps they'll change their tune:

[Williams]

This article really said nothing to support the title, or about other planets at all. If they have plants the plants may be different. Ok.

[muawiyah]

It's much more likely that the plants here are the same as the plants there, or anywhere.

There are only so many possibilities, and over a sufficiently long enough period they should all be exercised.

It's something most likely built into DNA hundreds of billions of years ago in millions of different universes with which we no longer have contact.

It's pretty obvious DNA is a really smart cookie ~ it self assembles itself into all sorts of configurations, and with its companion RNA, and the use of epigenetics, and now we find, micro-RNA, it can do almost anything it wishes, and does so.

There's a quantum super computer in there somewhere and "it knows what to do".

[Rembrandt]

We can plan for the future.

1. Locate a promising candidate planet.

2. Find some dynamic leftists (e.g., Wasserman-Schultz, Harry the Hat, OBummer, etc.) and put them on a spaceship with a bunch of bleeding heart plants and,

3. Bid them adieu.

[Pox]

is what really began to soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, more so than organisms in the oceans. As a result, global temperatures dropped

I'm sorry, but I believe this is pure BS. This article, along with this "theory", exists for one purpose, and that is to continue the assertion that CO2 was and is a primary driver of the climate of this planet. Just my opinion.