Setting the Stage for Habitable Planets

González, Guillermo

doi:10.3390/life4010035

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“…There is a range of histories and types of planetary systems under which such exchanges could occur. Histories of migrating planets and their roving excreta further tone the clarification of planetary surface properties to be included in the framework of exploration of extra-solar systems [106][107][108].…”

Section: Abiogenesismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gonzalez recently pointed out, in a more restricted sense, that although Arrhenius' original canonical panspermia hypothesis in unlikely, what he terms as lithopanspermia of microorganisms that are endolithic and evolve in the same solar system, have increased positive consideration. In addition, terrestrial endolithic life shows unanticipated propensities to survive in caves and other hostile environments [106,107,[142][143][144][145][146].…”

Section: Point-counter-point Paradigms: Interplanetary and Inter-stelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Astrovirology, Astrobiology, Artificial Intelligence: Extra-Solar System Investigations

Shapshak

2019

Global Virology III: Virology in the 21st Century

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This chapter attempts to encompass and tackle a large problem in Astrovirology and Astrobiology. There is a huge anthropomorphic prejudice that although life is unlikely, the just-right Goldilocks terrestrial conditions mean that the just-right balance of minerals and basic small molecules inevitably result in life as we know it throughout our solar system, galaxy, and the rest of the universe. Moreover, when such conditions on planets such as ours may not be quite right for the origin of life, it is popularly opined that asteroids and comets magically produce life or at the very least, the important, if not crucial components of terrestrial life so that life then blooms, when their fragments cruise the solar system, stars, and galaxies, and plummet onto appropriately bedecked planets and moons. It is no longer extraordinary to detect extraterrestrial solar systems. Moreover, since extra-solar system space exploration has commenced, this provides the problem of detecting life with enhanced achievability. Small organisms, which replicate outside of a living cell or host, would not be catalogued as viruses. How about viruses that cohabit with life? On the Earth, viruses are a major, if underestimated, condition of life-will that be the case elsewhere? Detection of extra-solar system viruses, if they exist, requires finding life, since viruses necessitate life to replicate. (It should be noted, though, that viruses could be detected through various types of portable ultra-microscopes, including Electron Microscopes (EM) (scanning and transmission) as well as Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM).) However, extra-solar system detection of life does not oblige that viruses exist ubiquitously. Viruses are important potential components of biospheres because of their multiple interactions and influence on evolution, although viruses are small and obligatory parasitic. In addition, nanotechnology-living or replicating nano-synthetic machine organisms might also be present out there, and require consideration as well. An imposing caveat is that, if found, could some extraterrestrial viruses and synthetic nanotechnological microorganisms infect humans? This chapter is dedicated to Ettore Majorana, who changed the view of the universe.

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Section: Abiogenesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Point-counter-point Paradigms: Interplanetary and Inter-stelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Astrovirology, Astrobiology, Artificial Intelligence: Extra-Solar System Investigations

Shapshak

2019

Global Virology III: Virology in the 21st Century

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Astrophysical and Cosmological Constraints on Life

Mason¹,

Biermann²

2018

Habitability of the Universe Before Earth

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Evaluating Warfare Myths about Science and Christianity and How These Myths Promote Scientism

Keas

2021

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Many people assume that there has been ceaseless conflict between science and Christianity. I argue that the real conflict has been between scientism and religion. Scientism is the view that only the sciences generate knowledge or rational belief. Scientism, as typically articulated, entails the opinion that reliable belief about divinity (theological realism) is impossible. I debunk four historic science–Christianity conflict myths and show how they have promoted scientism. These four science–religion myths function as part of a larger warfare narrative about science and Christianity. This misleading warfare thesis often comes packaged with an alternative anti-theistic “myth” in the anthropological sense—in this case, a worldview-shaping narrative that awakens the imagination to interpret the world in scientistic and non-theistic ways. I call this the scientistic warfare myth and explore its major flaws.

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Setting the Stage for Habitable Planets

Cited by 4 publications

References 150 publications

Astrovirology, Astrobiology, Artificial Intelligence: Extra-Solar System Investigations

Astrovirology, Astrobiology, Artificial Intelligence: Extra-Solar System Investigations

Astrophysical and Cosmological Constraints on Life

Evaluating Warfare Myths about Science and Christianity and How These Myths Promote Scientism

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