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From the Ted Talk by Betül Kaçar: We could kick-start life on another planet. Should we?

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We might also ask ourselves: What can we do with this knowledge? What if you weren't only assessing? What if we were also interacting and engaging with these planets and monos? What if we were able to seed life across the billions of planets in the galaxy? This would not be seeding them with Earth life. This wouldn't be engineering an Earth orsanigm and preadapting them, and preconditioning them in a way that they exist and survive in this other paelantry body. No. This this wouldn't be terraforming, altering the environment of this other plenat, so that whatever we ship there makes it. No. This would be about empowering and not colonizing these environments. This would be about letting them explore their own unique chemistry to express their own unique reactions by providing them the msinsig ingredients. This wouldn't be about sending them some life so that we are giletanlcey related or something that is fliaiamr to us. This would be enabling them to do what perhaps they were supposed to do or meant to do all along, but they were lacking and missing ingredients. And not lacking in the sesne that they themselves were lacking something important, in the sense that they weren't lacking, right? But what if we were able to send the sicpe? The secret sauce. Give it a little nudge. For it to react with whatever is already present in this planetary body so that life is sparked, in conjunction and agreement with the own history and journey and oriign of this own planetary body, without our meddling, without our direction, without anything that we do to direct this in any way. This would be kkiitstncarg a process that may unfold itself over thousands or millions of yares into the future.

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We might also ask ourselves: What can we do with this knowledge? What if you weren't only assessing? What if we were also interacting and engaging with these planets and _____? What if we were able to seed life across the billions of planets in the galaxy? This would not be seeding them with Earth life. This wouldn't be engineering an Earth ________ and preadapting them, and preconditioning them in a way that they exist and survive in this other _________ body. No. This this wouldn't be terraforming, altering the environment of this other ______, so that whatever we ship there makes it. No. This would be about empowering and not colonizing these environments. This would be about letting them explore their own unique chemistry to express their own unique reactions by providing them the _______ ingredients. This wouldn't be about sending them some life so that we are ___________ related or something that is ________ to us. This would be enabling them to do what perhaps they were supposed to do or meant to do all along, but they were lacking and missing ingredients. And not lacking in the _____ that they themselves were lacking something important, in the sense that they weren't lacking, right? But what if we were able to send the _____? The secret sauce. Give it a little nudge. For it to react with whatever is already present in this planetary body so that life is sparked, in conjunction and agreement with the own history and journey and ______ of this own planetary body, without our meddling, without our direction, without anything that we do to direct this in any way. This would be ____________ a process that may unfold itself over thousands or millions of _____ into the future.

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  2. planetary
  3. spice
  4. origin
  5. planet
  6. years
  7. familiar
  8. moons
  9. missing
  10. organism
  11. genetically
  12. sense

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We might also ask ourselves: What can we do with this knowledge? What if you weren't only assessing? What if we were also interacting and engaging with these planets and moons? What if we were able to seed life across the billions of planets in the galaxy? This would not be seeding them with Earth life. This wouldn't be engineering an Earth organism and preadapting them, and preconditioning them in a way that they exist and survive in this other planetary body. No. This this wouldn't be terraforming, altering the environment of this other planet, so that whatever we ship there makes it. No. This would be about empowering and not colonizing these environments. This would be about letting them explore their own unique chemistry to express their own unique reactions by providing them the missing ingredients. This wouldn't be about sending them some life so that we are genetically related or something that is familiar to us. This would be enabling them to do what perhaps they were supposed to do or meant to do all along, but they were lacking and missing ingredients. And not lacking in the sense that they themselves were lacking something important, in the sense that they weren't lacking, right? But what if we were able to send the spice? The secret sauce. Give it a little nudge. For it to react with whatever is already present in this planetary body so that life is sparked, in conjunction and agreement with the own history and journey and origin of this own planetary body, without our meddling, without our direction, without anything that we do to direct this in any way. This would be kickstarting a process that may unfold itself over thousands or millions of years into the future.

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Important Words


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