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01 / prediction
“If it did emerge that way, then it would say, “Here’s why bacteria have got this charge on their membrane,” because it was there in a hydrothermal vent from the beginning.”
02 / prediction
“For most critters, most of the time it’s not going to work, but for one of them it does, and they will take over.”
03 / prediction
“I would expect that if you’ve got these same conditions on a wet, rocky planet, you’re going to be producing these same vents because it’s the same chemistry that’s going to happen.”
04 / prediction
“I think of CO2 as a Lego brick that you pluck out of the air and you bind it onto something.”
05 / prediction
“What I would say is if you’ve got a thousand planets with life on them, maybe life is going to be the same way 999 out of a thousand times because it’s going to be carbon-based, it’s going to be water, it’s going to be cells, it’s going to be charges, it’s going to be hydrogen and CO2, and you’re going to face the same constraints.”
06 / prediction
“I believe we’ll get there, which is why we’re trying to do it, but maybe we won’t, in which case, again, the hypothesis is wrong.”