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I think if we actually found irrefutable evidence of life on Europa (or some other celestial body) and that life was definitively non-terrestrial in origin, it
by nvy 3y ago
I think if we actually found irrefutable evidence of life on Europa (or some other celestial body) and that life was definitively non-terrestrial in origin, it would make global headlines.
Even if it's just microbes and not, like, some exotic whale- or octopus-type creature, it would be a momentous event.
- XorNot 3y agoIt'd have a huge impact on the Drake equation. Life in Europa is very much a different set of conditions too Earth. If we found abiogenesis happened twice in one solar system, I'd start to think it must happen pretty much everywhere.