keyboardpithecus@lemmy.worldOPtoAsk Science@lemmy.world•Is the mere ability to support life enough to think that life might have existed on Mars or other objects?English
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3 days agoThere isn’t an assumption that if it had liquid water it may have had life
Trouble is that between science and what we get from the media there is a big difference. In science the assumption is not there. But when you see the media reports about Mars or the future planned missions to Europa the assumption is there, blunt and with no attempts to justify it.
Yes, but, given that most of the fossils of archaic life was found where the primordial soup might have been present, that for the moment is the hypothesis with better support.