Astrobiology (ALIENS) with Kevin Peter Hand
Ologies with Alie Ward
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Are We Going to Look Like Us?
Would DNA appearing in extraterrestrial organisms be total chance or developed because of circumstances kind of steered evolution toward that efficient coding formation again? Who the hell knows, people? Literally no one. At least not on this planet. Maybe Kesha knows. But we certainly don't want our instrumentation and our measurements to require that lifeform to be based on DNA. Right. It's like taking a VCR somewhere. They got laser discs. Great, great analysis. How are you going to do that? Exactly. And so yeah, it's like a VCR. You got a thumb drive and an eight-track. What the hell are they going to do? Exactly.
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