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Over 10 km under the ocean Chinese scientists uncover something beyond imagination
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Sure. But it's one thing to have the theory and simulations, another to have real empirical confirmation. At the end of the day, every scientific theory no matter how rigorous it appears on paper has to be verified against reality.
There's just something really satisfying about having a real physical confirmation.
Like, almost no one in physics really doubted that black holes would eventually be confirmed observationally after general relativity was validated in 1919. But it was still very nice to actually get real measurements of one, after a century of only modeling them in theory.
Oh absolutely, having actual confirmation of life having evolved independently in another place would be a monumental discovery. And if we see life appear in two places in our own solar system, that pretty much guarantees that it is a common phenomenon.
That said, my view is that there's no fundamental difference between life expressed in a physical substrate or an artificial one. It's the same process operating in different environments.