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  • Possible detection of life on an exo-planet.

    From Alain Fournier@alain245@videotron.ca to sci.space.policy on Thu Apr 17 10:57:04 2025
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    I thought you might be interested in:

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/exoplanet-biosignature-1.7512703



    Alain Fournier

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  • From The Running Man@running_man@writeable.com to sci.space.policy on Thu Apr 17 17:57:20 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.space.policy

    On 17/04/2025 16:57 Alain Fournier <alain245@videotron.ca> wrote:
    I thought you might be interested in:

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/exoplanet-biosignature-1.7512703



    The key word here is "possible." Without proof it's all just speculation.


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  • From Snidely@snidely.too@gmail.com to sci.space.policy on Sun Apr 20 04:32:08 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.space.policy

    Alain Fournier pounded on thar keyboard to tell us
    I thought you might be interested in:

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/exoplanet-biosignature-1.7512703



    Alain Fournier

    Yeah, possible, but there's a great deal of skepticism among many of
    the planet finding crowd.

    Reactions not normally found on the nitroxy Earth may be a non-living
    source of the chemicals in the signature of a planet that probably
    isn't nitroxy, among other objections that need to be addressed.

    Articles on Ars Technica and elsewhere have more on the objections.

    /dps
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