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Earth As an Extrasolar Planet
sciencehabit writes "Astronomers have a theory that they can detect whether a planet light years away will be habitable by just looking at how its sun is reflected in its atmosphere. To test the idea, they pretended that they were observing Earth from a distant object — in this case, the moon. And sure enough, they picked up critical components for life in Earth's atmosphere: ozone, oxygen, sodium, and nitrogen."
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They could have just given me a few hundred thousand and I'd confirm for them that the Earth is hospitable for humans!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Take this off slashdot! It has no place in science! There are no other habitable planets! you are talking nonsense.
Was carbon dioxide detected? And while we're pretending, what life forms did they imagine to exist in a sodium and ozone environment (in addition to the N2 and O2, of course)? Could these imaginary life forms be carbon-based, or just some kind of woo-woo amazing aliens that have maybe possibly been visiting Earth for the past decades (well, since 1947) and probing innocent bystanders up the butt. Am I anti-science or ignorant/arrogant for demanding proof of aliens? So many questions.