Sentences with phrase «samples of alien life»

Six years ago a NASA probe brought back samples of alien life, but when it crash - landed the probe «infected» a large swathe of Mexico with seeds that grew into enormous creatures that look like octopi (that's plural for octopus) which walk on land.

Not exact matches

McKay suggested that the Viking Mars lander may have inadvertently oxidized any evidence of life it its samples of Martian soil, proposed an expedition to gather samples of water from the Saturn moon Enceladus, and offered a child - friendly analogy for how alien life might differ from life on Earth: «I could build a table out of Lincoln logs and you could build a table out of Legos: At the macroscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be tables; at the microscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be built from carbon atoms.

«If an alien intelligence came to Earth looking for life, they would probably get a sample of sea water, loaded with virions.