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- Today's APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day)
contained a reference providing answers to the question:
How will humanity first discover extraterrestrial life?
Today's APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day)
contained a reference providing answers to the question:
The title of the reference is
contained a reference providing answers to the question:
How will humanity first discover extraterrestrial life?
The reference isThe title of the reference is
100th Anniversary of the Shapley - Curtis Great Debate.
Sixteen scientists answered the question. A majority of them gave similar answers saying something close to the following:Chemical signature from the interior of an icy moon.
A few answers added Mars to the above. The second most common answer were variations of biosignatures from extra-solar planets not too far away in the Milky Way. A few answered that Seti will do the job. One very strange answer was that we will need to find and use a means of faster-than-light communication.