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SUMMARY:Searching for Life in Stranger Seas - William Bains
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CONTACT:Dr Megan Brown
DESCRIPTION: With a planet teaming with life all around us\, it is temptin
 g to think that any life on other worlds must be like Earth life. But is t
 hat true\, and if it is not\, what limits can we place on where we might l
 ook for life on other worlds? Starting from the still-controversial possib
 ility of the presence of phosphine in the clouds of Venus\, I will discuss
  what we know (not much) can model (some) and speculate about how the chem
 istry of life might work on other worlds under conditions very different f
 rom Earth. In particular\, different atmospheres give different chemistrie
 s\, possibly chemistries that use solvents other than water as their base.
  Alternative solvents open up the possibility of life on many bodies previ
 ously considered uninhabitable\, such as the clouds of Venus\, the surface
  of Mars\, even the Moon. I will end with some thoughts on complex\, even 
 intelligent\, life and where we might find it.\n\n
LOCATION:Chemistry Dept\, Unilever Lecture Theatre and Zoom
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