Not at Scrabble.That makes them pretty damned successful.
Not at Scrabble.That makes them pretty damned successful.
The point being that "last man standing" isn't necessarily a measure of how successful a species is, either.
It would be kind of crazy if we discovered that Venus and Mars had life. That would suggest that some of the Earth-like exoplanets should have life on them.
There's the Turing Test for AI and now, we have the Morrus Test for assessing if a lifeform is capable of playing a decent game of Scrabble. Any lifeform that fails has been wasting its time.Not at Scrabble.
I prefer the Calvin test:There's the Turing Test for AI and now, we have the Morrus Test for assessing if a lifeform is capable of playing a decent game of Scrabble. Any lifeform that fails has been wasting its time.
Question is... does that level of phosphine require the microbes to be still existent today? Maybe they existed back in the days and Venus was a more habitable planet for microbial life in these times?
I mean, life on earth neraly extinguished itself when these cyano-algae started exhaling oxygen en masse...