1/2: #Bestof2022: Searching for living exoplanets: 1/2: #Exoplanets: James "Q" Lovelock and the search for astrobiology evidence. Oliver Morton, Economist.
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1/2: #Bestof2022: Searching for living exoplanets: 1/2: #Exoplanets: James "Q" Lovelock and the search for astrobiology evidence. Oliver Morton, Economist. (Originally posted September 22, 2021)
https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2021/09/04/finding-living-planets
The idea that Earth is in some way alive, or can be treated as if it were, is common to many mythologies and sensibilities, and has been a theme in science for centuries. Its modern form, though, dates from the 1960s and the insights of James Lovelock, a British scientist then working at jpl, a laboratory in California that is responsible for most of America’s planetary science.
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