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To help fill this gap, our lab has begun using synthetic biology – the design and construction of new biological parts and systems and the redesign of existing ones for useful purposes – as an enabling technology.
- Lynn J. Rothschild, Kosuke Fujishima
- 2014
The aim of this paper is not just to overview extreme environments and their inhabitants, but to dis-cuss specific examples that may provide clues about extraterrestrial life.
This essay explores an alternative strategy for searching for extraterrestrial life: Search for potentially biological anomalies (as opposed to life per se) using tentative (vs. defining) criteria. The
Moving populations of humans to new habitats would have effects on culture as well biology, and must of course be carefully considered; an evacuation is different from purposive colonization. It has been shown that encountering new conditions can stimulate cultural innovation (Barnett 1953).
- Cameron M. Smith, Evan T. Davies
- 2012
extraterrestrial organism should obey the laws of chemi-stry and physics – at least in a scientific context – and any biological function requires complex chemistry. Carbon-based molecules are generally seen as the only way to provide the intricate building blocks for this [1]. Follow the water
NASA served as the most important patron for the new field. By 1963 NASA’s life sciences expenditures (including exobiology) had reached $17 million. The $100 million spent on the Viking biology experiments was closely related to origin of life issues, since an informed search for life required a definition of life and knowledge of its origins.
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Jan 17, 2022 · If we completely sterilized all life forms on Earth today, the molecular oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere would quickly plummet because oxygen is very reactive with other elements. A good example is Mars, where the oxygen rusted the iron on the surface to make its top soil appear reddish.
