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Redefining Life
The Parameters Allowing for Life May be Less Narrow than We Imagined
In a world where UFOs are real, the search for alien life is in high demand, and there is a rush to be the first to announce we have found life- it seem ironic that more and more articles are coming out discussing the possibility of life being so ubiquitous, we’re likely to find life everywhere we look.
It’s no longer just a snowball’s chance in hell, but rather are there snowball and hell like planets hosting life.
“It’s important to be really open-minded, and not to expect that life has to be under conditions that are just a copy of exactly Earth,” says Marit Mol Lous, lead author on the new paper and a PhD student studying exoplanets at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. “This gives us an extra argument to keep these exotic habitats in mind.”
What does it mean when a scientist says we need to be “really open-minded?” We live in a world where there are now over 5,000 known exoplanets. There are crazy ass solar systems forcing us to re-examine our ideas of possible planetary configurations and how solar systems form. UFO are real, per the government. Faster than light travel and warp bubbles are plausible…
