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Ugh, "alien life" is a reasonable title, IMO. I think the sensationalism is happening in your head, that you're imagining the Borg or little green men.
by netsharc 2y ago
Ugh, "alien life" is a reasonable title, IMO. I think the sensationalism is happening in your head, that you're imagining the Borg or little green men.
- weard_beard 2y agoI'm imagining some new kind of volcanism and one less way to detect life. Or, as my wife put it, "Ah, rock babies again."
- kulahan 2y agoYes, this is what scientists are assuming as well. The first real step is to work with chemists to try and find a way this could be created in such large amounts so consistently, as well as additional observations to remove noise from the data.
- teamonkey 2y agoI don’t think it’s an unreasonable title, but it’s also not accurate. The paper states quite clearly that they’ve found reasonable evidence of a known biomarker. They don’t know enough to say whether it’s from a biological or some abiotic process (but speculate a little about what that might mean and what evidence they would need to take that further). That’s quite a different tone from the article, and I think the comments here and elsewhere online reflect that.
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- rkagerer 2y agoMore like big green algae?