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Creating Aliens in a Lab - Dr. Lee Cronin, University of Glasglow

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The Ground Truth for Life

"I just, I've always been surprised that it's so difficult to evaluate whether or not there are signatures of life on other planets," he says. "What you've got to ask yourself is like, well, actually, what is life? What are we looking for?" If a molecule has 15 parts or more, and you can detect any abundance, you know that life made it,. And so what you really want to go and do is you want to look for evidence of molecular complexity using a mass spectrometer.

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