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Supported by[br]<b>Protocol Labs</b>

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Supported by[br]<b>Protocol Labs</b>[br]<i>Follow your curiosity.</i>

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Supported By[br]Protocol Labs[br]<i>Follow your curiosity.</i>[br]<i>Lead humanity forward.</i>

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Protocol Labs[br]<i>Follow your curiosity.</i>[br]<i>Lead humanity forward.</i>

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<i>Follow your curiosity.</i>[br]<i>Lead humanity forward.</i>

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"In all the universe,

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"In all the universe,[br]there stands only one known tree of life."

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"Does it stand alone?

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"Does it stand alone?[br]Or is it part of a vast cosmic wilderness?"

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"Imagine a museum[br]containing every type of life in the universe."

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"What strange things would such a museum hold?"

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"What is possible under the laws of nature?"

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LIFE

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LIFE BEYOND

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<b>CHAPTER II</b>

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<b>CHAPTER II</b>[br]<i>The Museum Of Alien Life</i>

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To have any hope-

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of finding alien life,

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we have to know what to look for.

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But where do we begin?

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How do we narrow down...

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a seemingly infinite set-

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of possibilities...

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There's one thing we know for sure...

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nature will have to play-

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by her own rules.

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No matter how strange

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alien life might be,

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is going to be limited-

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by the same physical...

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and chemical laws that we are....

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6

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6 C

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6 CO

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6 CO²

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6 CO² +

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6 CO² + 6

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6 CO² + 6 H

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6 CO² + 6 H²

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6 CO² + 6 H²O

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6 CO² + 6 H²O +

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + L

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Li

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Lig

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Ligh

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light →

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light → C

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light → C⁶

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light → C⁶H

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light → C⁶H¹

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light → C⁶H¹²

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light → C⁶H¹²O

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light → C⁶H¹²O⁶

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light → C⁶H¹²O⁶ +

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light → C⁶H¹²O⁶ + 6

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light → C⁶H¹²O⁶ + 6 O

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6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light → C⁶H¹²O⁶ + 6 O²

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On top of this,[br]6 CO² + 6 H²O + Light → C⁶H¹²O⁶ + 6 O²

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On top of this,

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each alien environment will further limit-

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each alien environment will further limit-[br]-<i>Hydrogen</i>-

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each alien environment will further limit-[br]-<i>Oxygen-</i>

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what kinds of life forms can evolve there.[br]-<i>Oxygen-</i>

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what kinds of life forms can evolve there.[br]-<i>Nitrogen</i>-

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Despite these natural boundaries,

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the possibilities are staggering to imagine.

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Trillions of planets,

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each a unique cauldron of chemicals,

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undergoing their own complex evolution.

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To guide our thinking, this museum of alien life[br]will be divided into two exhibits:

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Life as we know it: home to beings [br]with bio-chemistries like ours.

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And life as we don't know it: home to beings [br]that challenge our concept of life itself.

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Before we venture too far [br]into the unknown,

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we have to ask ourselves:

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what if alien life is more [br]like ours than we think?

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<b>EXHIBIT I</b>

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<b>EXHIBIT I</b>[br]<b>LIFE AS WE KNOW IT</b>

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<b>EXHIBIT I</b>[br]<b>LIFE AS WE KNOW IT</b>[br]<b>CARBON &amp; WATER BASED</b>

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If there's one feature that unites us with [br]these other specimes in this museum, it's carbon.

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Carbon is ubiquitous, it's one of the [br]most common elements in the universe,

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and is very good at forming [br]large stable molecules.

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Carbon has the rare ability to form four way[br]bounds with other elements

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and to bind to itself in [br]long, stable chains;

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enabling the formation of [br]huge complex molecules.

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This versatility makes carbon the center piece

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in the moleculary machinery of life.

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And the same carbon compounds that we use[br]have been found far from Earth,

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clinging to meteorites

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and floating in far off [br]clouds of cosmic dust.

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The building blocks of life drifting [br]like snow through the universe.

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And if alien life has selected other carbon[br]compounds for the biochemistry,

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they will have plenty to choose from.

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Scientists recently identified over a [br]million possible alternatives to DNA:

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all carbon based.

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If we ever discover other [br]carbon based life forms,

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we will be fundamentally related.

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They will be our cosmic brother.

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But would they look anything like us?

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If they hail from Earth like planets,

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we could share even more in common,

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than just our biochemistry.

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What would life be like in another[br]planets, if its evolved?

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Would it be like, the world [br]today here on Earth?

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Or would be completely different?

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There are those, who argue that

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from the argument of convergent evolution,

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if conditions on other planets are similar to here, then we will see very similar life forms;

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animal and plant-like organisms, that look very familiar.

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On Earth, certain features like eyesight, echo-location and flight

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have evolved multiple times, independently, in different species.

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This process of convergent evolution could extend to alien planets like Earth,

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where creatures share similar environmental pressures.

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It's no guarantee, but there could be certain universalities of life;

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the greatest hits of evolution on repeat across the Universe.

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Each feature would be a tune to its local environment.

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Dimly lit planets would produce huge eyes to suck in extra light, like nocturnal mammals.