What If Life Did Not Originate On Earth? - The New Yorker

This article left me stunned, not by Gary Ruvkun's maverick assertation about the origins of life as we know it but Isaac Chotiner not knowing a thing about SETI. Why aren't you profiling the Kardashians or urging people to "Drink Pepsi". It's clear anything approaching science, beyond a baking soda volcano, is out of your comfort zone. It's difficult to believe in the 21st century someone never, ever heard of SETI. Either way, Ruvkun carries Isaac through the interview by making several potent points about life on Earth and the universe. Speaking of which, Jocelyne LeBlanc knows the score and suggests Life Could Have Existed On Mars Before It Did On Earth. She's not talking out her ass, true believers, as the University of Western Ontario's best and brightest have done the math and argue how we're late to the party on martian timescales. Could they have been wiped out by a cataclysm, far grander than Graham Hancock could imagine? The Younger-Dryas Impact Debate continues apace, notes Martin Sweatman, as he lays out the contentions between these cosmic contenders. And while we're hanging out in the deep past, The University of Adelaide has a New Model Suggesting Lost Continents For Early Earth. By no means is Derrick Hasterok pointing to Atlantis, Mu, nor Lemuria but vast, land masses far older than those lost locales. Maybe dinosaurs also had access to orichalcum? (CS)

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