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4.5 Detecting Life From Afar

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    • Do you think we need to solve the problem of the origin of life on Earth before we will be able to remotely detect life on other worlds? Why?

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    • I don’t think so. We could detect life via finding biomarkers without any reference to the origin of life. Of course life could also be very different than our life on earth; in this case we must find out what are the pecularities and biomarkers of this sort of life.

    • What if the explanation to the origin of life on earth can only be found in some form of life outside our planet or solar system so I don’t think we need to understand the origin of life on earth before we re able to detect life on other worlds.

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    • As we know about earth’s atmosphere before life emerged. i think for more clarity we must go on with the exploration out side earth to find out possibility of life is unique in earth in universe

    • Inside of finding life on other planet humans need to make life easier on earth itself.

      Less pollution more Greennary
      Less stress more happiness
      Less pain more love
      Less tenison more life

    • There is no reason why we can’t be doing both, life on Earth and beyond.
      Sandokan Sahara-Khan

    • Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

      We do not need to fully understand one process to begin another.

      Prof. Andrew Strominger talks of how String Theory was made obsolete by recognizing similar border accumulations of black holes
      – conforming asymetries – in other sciences.

      In our planned obsolescence we can consider origins to be worthy of efforts and fundings.

      But if we can have platoons at different levels and good communication, we may all find answers together, on the way, and it may be OK to not have to answer questions we cannot or do not know.

      The details of the RNA research as developed allows for a greater possibility of fathoming other life structures than the test producing 20 amino acids.

      So searches for origins help, but we may be the ones helped one day, and that is OK too.

    • I don’t think so but it will obviously be beneficial in understanding and differentiating different concepts of chemistry that might intrinsically exist on exoplanets.

    • We must understand the origins and principles of life to be able to search for extraterrestrial life on other planets. This knowledge can be gained through techniques such as monitoring atmospheric biosignatures and searching for signs of habitable places.

    • To detect life on distant exoplanets, astronomers will look for biosignatures, byproducts of biology that are detectable in a planet’s atmosphere

    • YES ,Consequently, studying the origin and earliest evolution of life, along with the long-term evolution of the Earth’s environments, helps us understand why the Earth became habitable and why terrestrial life has persisted for billions of years.

    • we should firstly resolve issues on earth for life rather than moving towards new worlds.

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