#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

5399.034 - 5417.547 Adam Frank

We can say, look, oxygen, we know there would be no oxygen in the atmosphere if it wasn't for dimethyl sulfide, which is a compound that phyloplankton dump into the atmosphere, a lot of it. That's sometimes mentioned. And there was even, there was a paper that somebody wrote where it was like, well, we're not saying we see it, but, you know, there's a bunch of noise in the spectra right there.