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Almost certainly microorganism, but not necessarily extremophile. It depends what you mean by "find". We might "find" oxygen in an exoplanet atmosphere and go,
by andrewflnr 2y ago
Almost certainly microorganism, but not necessarily extremophile. It depends what you mean by "find". We might "find" oxygen in an exoplanet atmosphere and go, "yay, they have... algae?" :D
- tomrod 2y agoThat would be hugely important, actually. With N=1, we know that life exists but not how common different development might be. Algae on another planet would suggest panspermia of common development pathways.
- andrewflnr 2y agoWell, you don't actually get an id as specific as earthlike algae from an atmospheric spectrum (I guess I didn't actually say that's what I was thinking. Oops :D). If you actually went there and found earthlike DNA, then yes.