Complex Life Around Most Milky Way Stars May Be Impossible
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Top Comments (10)
We can’t identify stinky planets without a reliable space smellescope. 🤔
[chucking laptop into trash] my Sci fi novel is ruined
Gs and Ks is where it's at
I've never quite understood the base assumption that chlorophyll is the only possible photosynthetic mechanism. The researchers literally acknowledge the existence of rhodopsin photosynthesis, which is worse, but it proves the point that other photosynthetic pathways are possible, and I don't see why these couldn't be more efficient.
I find it so funny how every now and there's a video that suggests certain things might be impossible, when a big chunk of your library are videos about scientists finding things in the cosmos that they thought were impossible as well.
And of course, this comes with a very big asterisk: Life as *WE KNOW IT* is impossible on Red Dwarfs. I have a feeling the first alien life found outside our solar system will be completely different than life on Earth, down to its biochemistry. This is what some scientists call "carbon chauvinism" and "water chauvinism". Maybe nos "visible light photosynthesis chauvinism" could be added to the list.
Relying on the existence of photosynthesis as a requirement is too constrictive in my opinion. We really don't know the full space of possible proteins that can absorb different wavelengths. Perhaps I am missing something about the author's argument.
We seek quality of life Other planets seek quality of light
Life as we know it
I've been saying this for years. Every time an article pops up and they say they just found Earth 2.0 around a red dwarf, they didn't find anything. A red dwarf is way too volatile for life to exist in its "habitable zones".
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Top Comments (10)
We can’t identify stinky planets without a reliable space smellescope. 🤔
[chucking laptop into trash] my Sci fi novel is ruined
Gs and Ks is where it's at
I've never quite understood the base assumption that chlorophyll is the only possible photosynthetic mechanism. The researchers literally acknowledge the existence of rhodopsin photosynthesis, which is worse, but it proves the point that other photosynthetic pathways are possible, and I don't see why these couldn't be more efficient.
I find it so funny how every now and there's a video that suggests certain things might be impossible, when a big chunk of your library are videos about scientists finding things in the cosmos that they thought were impossible as well.
And of course, this comes with a very big asterisk: Life as *WE KNOW IT* is impossible on Red Dwarfs. I have a feeling the first alien life found outside our solar system will be completely different than life on Earth, down to its biochemistry. This is what some scientists call "carbon chauvinism" and "water chauvinism". Maybe nos "visible light photosynthesis chauvinism" could be added to the list.
Relying on the existence of photosynthesis as a requirement is too constrictive in my opinion. We really don't know the full space of possible proteins that can absorb different wavelengths. Perhaps I am missing something about the author's argument.
We seek quality of life Other planets seek quality of light
Life as we know it
I've been saying this for years. Every time an article pops up and they say they just found Earth 2.0 around a red dwarf, they didn't find anything. A red dwarf is way too volatile for life to exist in its "habitable zones".