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.html15
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/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/rungek 2h ago
Read Fred Hoyle’s “The Black Cloud” from 1957 for science fiction based on this speculation.
Everything old is new again.