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Old October 6th 12, 07:55 PM posted to alt.astronomy,sci.astro
Brad Guth[_3_]
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Default Since the Opportunity Rover, the field of Astrobiology has Exploded!

On Oct 3, 8:27*pm, "jonathan" wrote:
The 'Blueberry' Revolution!

Astrobiology in 2004, around the time the Mars rovers
stumbled into all those mysterious spheres and evidence
of water, looked like this conference below, a handful
of papers with an introduction asking....

"What the hell is astrobiology"?

NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2004
Abstractshttp://www.aics-research.com/lectures/abscicon2004/index.html

To this incredibly competitive and robust field
chock full of world class research.....

NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2012
Abstractshttp://abscicon2012.arc.nasa.gov/abstracts/

This kind of scientific explosion in a particular field
is exciting to say the least, more so considering
the dramatic topic....life elsewhere. But it also
indicates just how many credible people believe
Mars ....should have life.

The blueberries that launched a thousand papers~http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/a...905EFFAL00P295...

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To any technologically advanced intelligence, those other too hot or
cold planets or even a given moon that's more extreme, is not a
limiting factor in their exploitation or possible hosting of evolution
on behalf of accommodating complex life.

Natural or directed panspermia is certainly another alternative worth
our considering as a possibility, even as having given life to Earth
that may have been among the most recent generation of cosmic places
to have received those spores of life.

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