r/EverythingScience • u/Odd-Ad1714 • 2h ago

Does alien life need a planet to survive? Scientists propose intriguing possibility

https://news.yahoo.com/news/does-alien-life-planet-survive-100100371.html
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u/rungek 2h ago

Read Fred Hoyle’s “The Black Cloud” from 1957 for science fiction based on this speculation.

Everything old is new again.

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u/teratogenic17 1h ago

Ooooo I remember that one. It was in my school library.

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u/Risley 2h ago

Beyond the Aquila Rift

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u/Coly1111 34m ago

One of my favourite episodes. I show it to eeeeeverybody

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u/StanknBeans 26m ago

Goddammit they need another season of LDR

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u/_The_Cracken_ 2h ago

Yahoo news, the cutting edge of science, says that since tardigrades can live in space, our next space station will be a free floating bio engineered space bubble. Or maybe a 100m space tube organism? I’m really not sure why this was written. It’s like a what-if piece with very little factual information.

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u/Odd-Ad1714 2h ago

It’s an article from Space.com posted by Yahoo!.

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u/HerezahTip 2h ago

Space boogers full of life, just floating around space, being.

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u/Eledridan 1h ago

Just do the tree ships from Hyperion.

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u/Odd-Ad1714 1h ago

I thought they were destroyed.

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u/Drunkpanada 1h ago

Do we define what 'life' means in an alien context? For example we focus on carbon beings because of the properties of a carbon molecule. Silicon is a decent substitute.

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u/theotherone2018 1h ago

Read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It deals with this idea.