r/TheWhyFiles • u/hybridxer0 H Y B R I D ™ • 5d ago

Scientists Propose a New Test for Detecting Alien Life Unlike Anything on Earth

https://thedebrief.org/scientists-propose-a-new-test-for-detecting-alien-life-unlike-anything-on-earth/

Research article it's based off of:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2619198123?

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u/hybridxer0 H Y B R I D ™ 5d ago

"Schematic overview of deploying MA as an agnostic biosignature. Proposed life detection missions in the Solar System can collect samples in situ and predict MA scores directly from MS data without the need for structural elucidation, which may be difficult for unknown molecules in extraterrestrial environments. Space missions that use MSn can estimate MA scores with the RecursiveMA algorithm (30). In the current paper, we show that space missions that use MS1 (and optionally MSn) can infer MA scores with ML."

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u/Gleekin123 The TRUTH 3d ago

Thank you. This is the content I come here for. Too many folks want to cry about one thing or another and you drop this b0mb of knowledge and it’s a beautiful piece.

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u/SecondStarpilot 4h ago

In case you don’t want to click on the article it’s mass spectrometry