2/2: #Bestof2022: Searching for living exoplanets: 2/2: #Exoplanets: James "Q" Lovelock and the search for astrobiology evidence. Oliver Morton, Economist.(Originally posted September 22, 2021)
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2/2: #Bestof2022: Searching for living exoplanets: 2/2: #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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| 0:36.7 | writing for the Economist magazine about the thinking of James Lovelock, |
| 0:41.5 | a man who worked with JPL in the 1960s. |
| 0:45.2 | A man who was a physician but also a keen on chemistry |
| 0:49.8 | for discerning life on planets. |
| 0:52.6 | And our own planet started with what you'd have to say, |
| 0:55.9 | complete radical conditions, different from where we are now. |
| 0:59.5 | From about four and a half billion years ago, |
| 1:02.1 | is the general assumption that that's when we looked for |
| 1:05.5 | the accretion of the planet. |
| 1:07.8 | Perhaps between four and a half and four, |
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