#Comet 67/P C-G and the biomarker that isn't. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
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#Comet 67/P C-G and the biomarker that isn't. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-molecule-found-by-rosetta-on-comet-67p-c-g-proves-discovering-life-on-exoplanets-will-not-be-easy/
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever |
| 0:26.7 | you listen to podcasts. I'm John Baster Behind The Black, Bob Zimmerman. |
| 0:38.0 | Bob, we have a challenge, a chemistry challenge. |
| 0:42.0 | What is it? Yes, scientists have been trying to come up with what they |
| 0:46.4 | call biosignatures on exoplanets to see if they detect these molecules in the atmospheres of these planets, they think they might have |
| 0:55.5 | got a signature of life. If you find oxygen in the atmosphere that indicates a possibility of |
| 0:59.9 | life. They had another one called, it's a molecule called DMS. |
| 1:04.3 | On Earth, it's only produced by life here on Earth. |
| 1:07.3 | And so if they could be an exoplanet, they would say, |
| 1:09.6 | that's a signature of life. |
| 1:11.6 | Well, one of the scientists who worked on Rosetta that went to |
| 1:15.0 | the comment 67 PCG said I don't think this is a good biosecond for life and |
| 1:21.6 | it went back to the data, the archive data |
| 1:24.8 | from that mission, and within a day, very quickly |
| 1:27.8 | found evidence of DMS, that molecule on the comet. |
| 1:33.0 | The comet has no life, never has had life, |
| 1:35.0 | so it couldn't have that molecule. |
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