Potential guides to the development of carbon -
based life on other planets in the Solar System or around other stars include the past history and continuously changing nature and types of life and environmental conditions on Earth that reflect life's presence.
The ability to identify microbes in space could aid in the ability to diagnose and treat astronaut ailments in real time, as well as assisting in the identification of DNA -
based life on other planets.
Not exact matches
Who knows, there might be
other life forms out there
on planets with differnt types of suns,
other types of atmosphere, maybe even
based on something
other than carbon... Religion can't answer those questions, but science, ever so slowly, is plugging away at the answers.
There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, each with
planets, that large of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but
life may not require it
on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon
based lifeform somewhere else in our galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of
planets.
Rynn Berry: Good point and if they colonize
other planets they are going to be compelled to
live on plant
based foods because they can't ship cows into outer space.
Our Mindful
Life: Mindful
Life is about paying attention to what it is that we do
on a day to day
basis and how we impact each
other and the
planet.
«I know of no
other technology except computer science that can be as influential in the survival of human
life on this
planet than that of mushroom mycelium,» says Stamets, who has been awarded six patents for mushroom -
based inventions.
In a decade, NASA hopes to launch a network of space -
based telescopes that will be able to pinpoint Earth - like
planets in
other solar systems and see whether
life has altered their atmosphere in the same way it has here
on Earth — flooding it with oxygen, for example.
If finding
life on other planets is really NASA's most important goal, then the Terrestrial
Planet Finder is the big enchilada of the entire spaced -
based telescope effort.
This suggests XNAs might form the
basis of
life on other planets, where different environments led to different chemistry.
Such traces can be used to provide a «Field Guide to Unknown Organisms» for developing
life detection space missions can also provide the
basis for future human habitations
on other planets.
In any case, any developing carbon -
based life on a developing Earth - type
planet would be subject to tremendous heat
on a newly formed
planet that is under intense asteroidal and cometary bombardment, in addition to the intense and deadly radiation produced by nearby supernovae and
other massive young stars.
Enjoy the game's in - depth crafting system, complex yet simple
base building, surviving against
other players as well as the dangerous wield
life found
on the
planet, and soon enough engage in completing quests.
Other life forms have had just as massive an effect
on the
planet as us (plants changing the atmosphere so that it could support oxygen -
based life, as pointed out in the article).
Developments in artificial intelligence may help us to predict the probability of
life on other planets, according to new work by a team
based at Plymouth University.