RE: Jeremy England of M.I.T. is my new hero
January 4, 2015 at 1:21 am
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2015 at 1:26 am by Kulthenius.)
(January 4, 2015 at 12:31 am)bennyboy Wrote: Links are good.
I'm too new to post links.
Thanks for the link ManMachine. I'll be better about that kind of stuff when I pass my 30/30 period.
(January 4, 2015 at 12:38 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Atoms are so small, and there would have been so many niches way back then, I could see life on earth being close to inevitable.
If there is (or was) even just some interesting chemistry on Mars, or Europa, or Enceladus it would lend credence to England's idea.
Conversely, in my view, the Kepler satellite is showing many, many unanticipated ways a planetary system can turn out (from a soft squishy life form like me's perspective) bad.
(granted,Kepler can't 'see' solar systems like ours, and the planet statistical work isn't done yet, so I might be a little pessimistic here)
I watched an old rerun of Discovery's 'The Universe'. Season 2, episode 1, I believe. It was about Mars, and though the episode is a few years old and doesn't use any of the curiosity rover's data, it is quite interesting to see the different possibilities of life.
