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Dr. John Brandenburg: Confessions of a NASA Space Scientist

Earth Ancients

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The Copernican Revolution and the Origins of Life

There's nothing about the Earth or Mars that looks terribly exceptional in cosmos. We're finding planets just about every star you see at night as planets are in. And some of those planets are just in what's called the life zone where you have liquid water like on Earth. This is so such a dramatic, unsettling thing. It's just like the Copernican Revolution where the Copernicus said that Earth was not the geometric center of the universe. He knew this would make the church mad and he made sure the book was published after he was dead.

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