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Feasibility Study for Giant Planet Origins of Life (GPOOLS)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2017

Len Troncale
Len Troncale*
Affiliation:
Biology Dept., and Institute for Advanced Systems Studies, California State Polytechnic University, 3801 W. Temple Ave., Pomona, CA 91768, U.S.A.

Abstract

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We recognize the theoretical objections and strong assumptions in bioastronomy against the feasibility of non-carbon based life (NCBL). Yet, we make a long-term commitment to testing these assumptions by parameterization of a wide range of NCBL characteristics using General Morphology, direct lab tests of giant planet gasses and energy sources at extreme temperatures and pressures for spontaneous NCBL subunit formation, and development of a range of instruments for lab and remote sensing of putative NCBL complex macromolecules.

Type
Origins and Evolution of Life
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 213: Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the stars , 2004 , pp. 337 - 342
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

References

Zwicky, F. 1969, Discovery, Invention, Research Through The Morphological Approach (Macmillan), 276 Google Scholar