![Life As We Know It - If we found alien life, would we recognize it? That’s the key question in an interesting article by Carl Zimmer over at Txchnologist. As it turns out, scientist are having a hard time to even agree on what exactly “life” is:
[…] there is no definition of life that’s universally agreed upon. When Portland State University biologist Radu Popa was working on a book about defining life, he decided to count up all the definitions that scientists have published in books and scientific journals. […] Popa gave up counting after about 300 definitions.
Even here on Earth, life can get so weird that we hardly recognize it. So is our fixation on liquid-water based lifeforms making us blind to the very thing we are looking for?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly883jKcUb1qiiz3qo1_500.jpg)
Life As We Know It - If we found alien life, would we recognize it? That’s the key question in an interesting article by Carl Zimmer over at Txchnologist. As it turns out, scientist are having a hard time to even agree on what exactly “life” is:
[…] there is no definition of life that’s universally agreed upon. When Portland State University biologist Radu Popa was working on a book about defining life, he decided to count up all the definitions that scientists have published in books and scientific journals. […] Popa gave up counting after about 300 definitions.
Even here on Earth, life can get so weird that we hardly recognize it. So is our fixation on liquid-water based lifeforms making us blind to the very thing we are looking for?
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