Great article, but have to disagree on one!
âLife on the Sun like our ownâ has of course been gleefully debunked.
But we canât write off life-like process forming in high-energy states that may use a completely different set of processes or even come from a different era. They may operate at absurd energy states, go through generations before we know it, and theyâd never escape that gravity well with any sort of mass . . . but we always have to be careful when we think we âknowâ things. We are just teensey little humans with very limited views.
Authors like Gregory Benford, Charles Scheffield, and Stephen Baxter have dabbled a little there, still from our limited viewpoint but with their lovely brains and have touched on some possibly plausible mechanisms.
Thatâs something we need to keep in mind if we ever consider MESSING with the Sun generations hence.
Iâm gratified and relieved to see that neither phlogiston nor spontaneous human combustion were among the âdebunkedâ sciency things in that list.
In fact, I believe itâs simply an unintended release of the bodyâs phlogiston that leads to human combustion in nearly every case.
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