Penelope Boston: There might just be life on Mars
ペネロープ・ボストン「火星に生命はいるのか?」
Penelope Boston studies caves and karst formations, and the special biology that lives in them -- both here on Earth and possibly on other planets. Full bio
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とても驚くような仕事ができました
太陽系外も対象になります
スティーブ・シュナイダー博士は
多くの論文を執筆しました
多くの論文を執筆しました
一つだと私は考えます
解明できるのでしょうか
発見したはずですが そうはいきません
発見したはずですが そうはいきません
研究を継続できるか?
微小物の研究は常に困難です
微小物の研究は常に困難です
期間を経てようやく
期間を経てようやく
非常に重要な点です
ヴィラ・ルース洞窟で
鼻から流れ出るものと同じです
近郊にあるレチュギヤ洞窟は
取り出し酸化させます
取り出し酸化させます
同様に消費します
(電場応答高分子型人工筋肉)
今後50年に渡り
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Penelope Boston - Cave scientistPenelope Boston studies caves and karst formations, and the special biology that lives in them -- both here on Earth and possibly on other planets.
Why you should listen
Penelope Boston is fascinated by caves -- secret, mineral environments that shelter mysteries in beguiling darkness and stillness. She's spent most of her career studying caves and karst formations (karst is a formation where a bedrock, such as limestone, is eaten away by water to form underground voids), and is the cofounder of the new National Cave and Karst Research Institute, based in New Mexico.
Deep inside caves, there's a biology that is like no other on Earth, protected from surface stress and dependent on cave conditions for its survival. As part of her work with caves, Boston studies this life -- and has made the very sensible suggestion that, if odd forms of life lie quietly undiscovered in Earth's caves, there's a good chance it might also have arisen in caves and karst on other planets. Now, she's working on some new ways to look for it
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