tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315629333109868789.post5511902655676909876..comments2024-03-17T22:59:24.273+00:00Comments on Peter Household - things that have interested me: Extraterrestrial life? Keep your eye on Lake EllsworthPeter Householdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04537256881744236389noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315629333109868789.post-81619012346688585852012-12-05T21:46:27.061+00:002012-12-05T21:46:27.061+00:00That’s a fair point. The fellow quoted would proba...That’s a fair point. The fellow quoted would probably agree. Life not as we know it is sometimes referred to as “weird life”. I think there may even have been an academic paper with that in the title, I shall look it up.Peter Householdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04537256881744236389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315629333109868789.post-16202248995573426892012-12-05T20:18:26.365+00:002012-12-05T20:18:26.365+00:00Noggin, I feel precisely the same when reading abo...Noggin, I feel precisely the same when reading about such things. Take the Mike Bentley quote here: "Extreme environments tell you what constraints there are on life. If we find a particular set of environments where life can't exist, that creates some bookends: it tells you about the limits of life." <br /><br />Surely what he should have said was: "Extreme environments tell you what constraints there are on life as we know it. If we find a particular set of environments where life can't exist, that creates some bookends: it tells you about the limits of life....as we know it" <br /><br />Science is all about theories. All scientific truths are nothing but theories that have yet to be disproved. One of those theories is that life as we know it is the only way for life to exist.Albert Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13425879228532864295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2315629333109868789.post-35640981368518505832012-12-04T13:46:19.318+00:002012-12-04T13:46:19.318+00:00Hi Pete - what always strikes me in these types of...Hi Pete - what always strikes me in these types of things (and this may be my ignorance here) is that it should surely refer to life AS WE KNOW IT? Who's to say lifeforms haven't developed on other planets in completely different conditions from our own? The point of evolution is that life develops to cope with its environment doesn't it, which may apply away from Earth as well as on it?Nogginnoreply@blogger.com