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Life on a Distant Plane

Recently, scientists found astonishing evidence that there are other living things in this universe. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, they have found dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide on the exoplanet K2-18b, two microorganisms that live in the ocean on Earth. The scientists believe that there might also be water oceans on that planet. Even though Avi Loeb and his teammates are very excited, planet K2-18b is about 700 trillion miles away and 2.6 times larger than Earth. who questions life on planet K2-18b, saying that it might not be “indicative of life, but geological processes, chemical processes on the surface of the planet that produced this molecule without life on it.”

Then Loeb also says that if there is life on the planet, any signal that is sent to exoplanet K2-18b will not be returned for at least 248 years, and that he isn’t patient enough to wait for a whole 248 years. He says it would make way more sense to listen to them, similar to when someone’s on a date, it is best “to listen before speaking .”

“I think we should obviously try to detect any transmission signal and then figure out what to do about it,” Loeb says. In 2023, a newspaper website announced that Loeb and his teammates found fragments in a meteor that had landed in the ocean. It is believed that these fragments, or “metallic spherules,” have a chance to be from “alien technology”. Right now, Loeb and his team are still researching this fascinating exoplanet, exoplanet K2-18b.

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Yuhan Guan