“Dang! They’re onto us!”
Posted on 09/25/2020 11:02:36 AM PDT by LibWhacker
In July, three unmanned missions blasted off to Mars – from China (Tianwen-1), the US (Nasa’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover) and the United Arab Emirates (Hope). The Chinese and American missions have lander craft that will seek signs of current or past life on Mars. Nasa is also planning to send its Europa Clipper probe to survey Jupiter’s moon Europa, and the robotic lander Dragonfly to Saturn’s moon Titan. Both moons are widely thought to be promising hunting grounds for life in our solar system – as are the underground oceans of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus.
Meanwhile, we can now glimpse the chemical makeup of atmospheres of planets that orbit other stars (exoplanets), of which more than 4,000 are now known. Some hope these studies might disclose possible signatures of life.
But can any of these searches do their job properly unless we have a clear idea of what “life” is? Nasa’s unofficial working definition is “a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution”. “Nasa needs a definition of life so it knows how to build detectors and what kinds of instruments to use on its missions,” says zoologist Arik Kershenbaum of the University of Cambridge. But not everyone thinks it is using the right one.
Astrobiologist Lynn Rothschild of Nasa’s Ames research centre in California sees a cautionary tale in AA Milne’s story from Winnie-the-Pooh, in which Pooh and Piglet hunt a Woozle without knowing what it looks like and mistake their own footprints for its tracks. “You can’t hunt for something if you have no idea what it is,” she says.
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OK, nully...I’m in the “could be” camp now. : )
“Dang! They’re onto us!”
ET phone home.
Could be! Just the other day I read (here, I think) they’ve got nine brains.
Yes. And they vote rat.
Both she and the other one have certifiably crazy eyes.
There it is.
I was thinking the entire liberal population of the US. They’re like a disease and they’re slowly destroying America.
It’s either actual aliens or an alien biological attack that affects the minds of weak individuals and removes all rational thought.
If I remember my “ Big Bang Theory,” doesn’t she excuse herself and climb out the bathroom window when on dates?
There has been some suggestion that a radically different family of life appeared about 150 million years ago. Grasses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaceae
I did vote the candidate the space alien endorsed...😀.
Well, if you put a picture of Nancy Pelosi next to a picture of Uranus, you would be hard pressed to tell the difference...
A well-known factoid!
CA....
To the alien...😀
You have a point. The Reptilian Overloads might be preferable to Queen Cankles.
Classic movie “They Live”, with Roddy Piper....
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