
Finding Life by Looking for Complexity
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Role of Molecules in the Atmosphere
If you think of every object in the molecule as a discrete piece of information that's locked together, what you could also now is think about discrete pieces of information that control the gases in an atmosphere. Now what you can do is almost build an ametrological model of what's going on in the planetary atmosphere. Once you start to see differences in concentrations between the gases that are connected, you can start to use assembly theory to say, oh, this planet looks to be really adding, acting rather oddly. That's what you could do with one of the worst case scenarios. But I have to say that's a very science, well, it's not science fiction because it's possible
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