{"id":149116,"date":"2022-10-29T20:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T01:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/darwins-extraterrestrials"},"modified":"2022-10-29T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T01:23:06","slug":"darwins-extraterrestrials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/darwins-extraterrestrials","title":{"rendered":"Darwin\u2019s Extraterrestrials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QvOMrt2Lj4I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy now it has become a common futurist prediction and science fiction plot device that intelligent and sentient life forms can be created which are not biochemical in nature and are thus fundamentally different from all currently known life,\u201d distinguished Princeton astrophysicist <a href=\"https:\/\/web.astro.princeton.edu\/people\/edwin-l-turner\">Edwin Turner<\/a> wrote in an email to <i>The Daily Galaxy.<\/i> \u201cWhether or not this would actually be possible,\u201d he explains, \u201cdepends on the nature and origin of consciousness, a topic about which we have little more than entertaining whistling-in-the-dark guesses at this point and no clear path toward obtaining any better understanding of this deep mystery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Aliens Shaped by Natural Selection<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a landmark 2017<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/news\/2017-10-31-aliens-may-be-more-us-we-think\"> study<\/a> published in the International Journal of Astrobiology scientists from the University of Oxford showed that aliens are potentially shaped by the same processes and mechanisms that shaped humans, such as natural selection and are like us, evolving to be fitter and stronger over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBy now it has become a common futurist prediction and science fiction plot device that intelligent and sentient life forms can be created which are not biochemical in nature and are thus fundamentally different from all currently known life,\u201d distinguished Princeton astrophysicist Edwin Turner wrote in an email to The Daily Galaxy. \u201cWhether or not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}