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Discovering life on other planets would be at least a Copernican-level shift in most sciences. I think it'd be the discovery to trump all other discoveries. I
by jvanderbot 4y ago
Discovering life on other planets would be at least a Copernican-level shift in most sciences. I think it'd be the discovery to trump all other discoveries.
I can't decide what's weirder: That it'd use similar DNA/RNA for replication, or that it wouldn't.
- slashdev 4y agoI think they would both be massive discoveries that would shake things up. If it used DNA/RNA it's almost certainly from the same tree of life as us, validating the panspermia theory. If it didn't then we'd get to see a completely novel chemistry of life, although still water based.