Re: exopaleontology

[Erik Boehm <erikboehm07@yahoo.com>]

I'm a subscriber to the "Rare Earth" hypothesis.
The only "fossils" I would think one would have a reasonable chance of finding, 
would be "chemical fossils" like the evidence for life on earth 3.8 billion 
years ago.
I wouldn't rule out microbial life, but I don't think you'll be finding fossils 
of multicellular/macroscopic life.

--- On Mon, 6/21/10, Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au> wrote:

> From: Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
> Subject: Re: exopaleontology
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Date: Monday, June 21, 2010, 9:55 PM
> On Tue, Jun 22nd, 2010 at 2:45 PM,
> "Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Ian Paulsen wrote:
> > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100619/sc_space/robotscouldhuntforfossilsoneuropa
> > 
> > I swear I just recently read something about
> possible/potential fossil 
> > sites on Mars...  can't find it now, darn it...
> 
> It seems people will search for fossils just about
> anywhere. I'd draw the line at Uranus though.
> 
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