Man I hate this shit.
Even dweeb on the planet (and perhaps other planets now) is about to become an expert in astrobiology and I’m going to have to listen to them politely. I was already seeing last night a bunch of people saying “phosphine is a biomarker for life, tuck that fact somewhere safe you might need it later”, as though they hadn’t just read the wiki article on phosphine themselves.
i mean IF this is real (and i’m going to take random quora posts with a grain of salt) and IF it’s life (which even the quora post that i’m not inclined to believe says is an if) it’s gonna be something unicellular and not the posadist ayy lmaos of your dreams
If it is real, finding even unicellular life on another planet would be the most incredible discovery in the history of mankind. Our little geocentric mindset would be blown completely apart.
Finding life on another planet in our solar system essentialy means the universe must be teeming with life.
Certainly, and it also means that our failure to find communications from intelligent life is that much more disturbing.
Have we existed intelligently for too short a time to find others like us? Is the great filter still ahead of us? Will we ever fuck aliens?
It’s theoretically possible for bacteria to be ejected into space by major impacts, and end up on “nearby” planets like Mars and Venus, so it wouldn’t necessarily mean multiple independent origins, but having at least two planets naturally capable of supporting life would be very significant.
The Venusians are about to paratroop onto Mars
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