We don't expect to see fossilized microbes because they don't have bones and teeth. You would need to be on the surface of a planet to find that. And you'd probably want humans there to be looking robots. Until AI becomes our overlords, then they're our share, right? Next week is it next week. No something, Paul. It's happening. That's what I was told by my AI.
Have we disproven the idea of a “goldilocks zone”? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Paul Mecurio learn about space geology, magnetic fields, volcanoes, and the origins of life with cosmochemist Natalie Starkey, PhD.
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