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Cold and ghoulish? 🤔 The whole world is still concerned about the fate of these 239 people even after 15 years. That seems the...

That's using it as a metaphor. Like the 'fire' example. Fire is only alive metaphorically. There's nothng about the definition of life...

Yeah. Which is why such a probability score in an infinite universe is kind of useless. What we want is a density. i.e. per given...

239 families would like closure, Airline would like to know what went wriong and how they can mitigate it, Airline would like to be able...

I mean, people are still looking for Amilia Earheart.

Possibly, although I think natural evolution would be drastically reduced. Our medical technology would correct or compensate for most...

Math his beautiful and full of surprises.

Why would you need any more than a smidge of gravity? Say, 20%? Just enough to make sure things don't float around in the corridors...

You're talking about two-way communication. If we saw unmistakeable signs of life in the Andomeda Galaxy - despite being 2 million...

"more significant"? "pick one"? "more impressive"? "best answer?"

Yes. Many of which do not apply to this topic of discussion. This is about exo-biology. Competent scientists are not looking at...

Pretty certain no serious scientist thinks that an individual who cannot reproduce is not alive. So it is not the definition anyone uses...

I don't grant that mules and ants are germane. Naively, by that same definition, a barren woman is not alive. The defintion of life is...

There are, by the way, replicative cycles in nature that are far, far simpler than DNA/RNA. The Krebs cycle (AKA citric acid cycle) is...

Latest deep-sea search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 gets underway...