Earth As an Extrasolar Planet 83
sciencehabit writes "Astronomers have a theory that they can detect whether a planet light years away will be habitable by just looking at how its sun is reflected in its atmosphere. To test the idea, they pretended that they were observing Earth from a distant object — in this case, the moon. And sure enough, they picked up critical components for life in Earth's atmosphere: ozone, oxygen, sodium, and nitrogen."
This just in (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What a waste of money (Score:2, Funny)
Until the point that American Idol and Fox News is detected ;-)
sodium (Score:2, Funny)
It's natrium, you insensitive clod!
Re:This just in (Score:4, Funny)
Well, they needed a control experiment to compare their findings to when they prove otherwise in 20 years.
WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Narrow-minded folks (Score:3, Funny)
And besides, finding life that uses oxygen means we're more likely to find life similar to ours, so we can have sex with it.