Life Sciences
Life may be as ubiquitous as stars. Maybe even living in the clouds of dead or dying stars, per speculative science. Life could exist in every solar system. I am more than hopeful. It seems reasonable that if life happened here on Earth, it happens every where. There are some that say life started on Mars and migrated to Earth; that’s a scientific theory, recognizing Mars all the right ingredients for life as we know it. In a interview with Lex Fridman, Lee Cronin said as much and nearly brought the four hour podcast to a halt. Lee Cronin is an interesting scientist. He has spent the last 20 to 30 years trying to create life in the lab. He is still trying to. He clearly states ‘life is ubiquitous,’ but that if it isn’t, humans have a moral obligation to not only treat life better, but we need to create it in the lab and then ‘origin of life bomb every dead planet we visit.’ The goal of life is to make more life.
Lee Cronin isn’t the only one who has said life is ubiquitous. In an article on Space.com, Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz was quoted as saying about the possibility of life on planet Gliese 581g “Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say, my own personal feeling is that the chances of life on this planet are 100 percent. I…
