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"Can't, I have a morning meeting."
"2018?"
"Well, I'm supposed to have a luncheon that afternoon, but I suppose it can be rescheduled."
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The Earth is full of water, which is important since when you party hard you need to keep yourself hydrated.
The Moon is made of cheese, and Mars is red line wine. Cheese and wine go well in parties.
Then, of course, you need music and, to be in style, you can choose old 45-rpm records, just like the rings of Saturn.
And, in case there are minors in the party who need someone to keep an eye on them, there's always papa Jupiter with its Red Eye a couple of astronomical units away.
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If only you knew how true that is...
A few years ago I wrote my own version of Darwin's theory of evolution, which I called the Theory Of Revolution. You can read it here, if you're interested:
[blogs.suntimes.com]
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I think Martian cow steak tastes like everything else, ie, just like chicken.
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Ha.
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In other words, if you could find a comparable environment, you could transport the extremophile, today, to an alien world.
12/06/09
I'd say more that while it proves that there clearly is no "normal" in terms of where life can exist, it heavily indicates that you should either be able to find life everywhere, or assume that it probably doesn't exist there at all. I mean, life is pretty much everywhere you look on our planet, so what possible logic is there in saying that you might find mere traces of life in a planet the size of Jupiter? Anything that's there should outnumber life on Earth.
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I'm not saying that it could spontaneously happen on Jupiter. I'm saying that we can't assume it couldn't, and I'm saying that it should be pretty easy to find if it has and it's still alive.
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On the flip side, if you can cart a whole range of archea and bacteria in a sealed/isolated container, and they survive the trip and survive the alien environment, we're golden. The problem is that no one wants to contaminate a foreign ecosystem, first.
12/07/09
All the rest of that stuff aside, just getting the container out of the Jovian atmosphere is pretty much a deal-breaker. Consider how much thrust it takes to get the container out of _our_ atmosphere. Now, you've got to launch a rocket on Earth that carries a second rocket that's big enough to relaunch the container from freefall in Jupiter's atmosphere. That would be one spectacular launch craft. And if something goes wrong during the launch, you can pretty much kiss Cape Canaveral goodbye. Probably the eastern half of central Florida as well.
12/05/09
Fade to black, music swells
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I remember taking a tour of a distillery in Scotland (yes, they did give samples) and being told there's a mold that's evolved to live off the fumes of fermentation.
"Life will find a way."
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sure there may be environments 'out there' that are very similar to environments here on earth that contain life (more accurately - that life has moved into) but that doesn't mean that life can /begin/ in those environments...
12/05/09
What makes me hopeful is my belief that there is still so much we don't understand about everything. That which seems impossible today is often proven wrong over time. The same could happen with our beliefs about what is required to sustain or create life.
11/25/09
Get. Your. Ass. To Mahs.
(I don't want to go to Saturn-- I said Mahs!)
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But I welcome anybody here to elaborate further/correct me.
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IF FOUND, PLEASE RETURN TO ZBORKSEVEN, MARS SCIENCE MUSEUM
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I think the money will turn up pretty quickly then.
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"DONE!"
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