Standardization was also a way of reprogramming life elsewhere in the default settings of the metropole.
Study co-author David Charbonneau of Harvard University said the findings had implications for the search for life elsewhere.
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And they give strong suggestions about what to do next in the quest for life elsewhere in the universe.
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The possibility of life elsewhere reaches beyond people interested in science, he said, and Curiosity points towards a potential revolution.
If life can originate in such dark, subterranean hells, then life elsewhere in the cosmos appears that much more possible.
Scientists say the difficult thing to know about climate change in the Pacific is how a change in one place affects life elsewhere.
Highlanders have traditionally set a high value on education and acquiring new skills, if only as a passport to a better life elsewhere.
As astrobiologists dig and scrape in amongst the microbial inhabitants of Earth's most hostile environments to understand the possibility of life elsewhere, they learn things that have economic uses.
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Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.
But such a calculation only makes it more likely that life exists elsewhere in the universe.
Haunted by tragedy, stalked by absence, competitive with the dead, yearning for restoration, they experience life as elsewhere.
Her sister elopes with a ghost, and her pimply brother struggles to make a life for himself elsewhere.
Such an advanced technology might well send explorers whose size and shape we cannot yet imagine to study and examine the diversity of life that evolved elsewhere -- and rather than exploiting us, they might value and support the natural biodiversity of the galaxy.
So does daily life in Israel, elsewhere in the region and globally.
For many reasons, this economic divide is so very much more tangible when flying than elsewhere in American life.
This was a global banking crisis, and banks all over the world with big exposure to property - banks in Ireland, Spain, the US and elsewhere - incurred life-threatening losses.
When she reaches the bags with the life jackets, Verna fumbles with her shoelaces until all eyes are elsewhere and she can cram an extra life jacket into her backpack.
While the nation was glued to the election returns, life went on and news happened elsewhere.
By erasing taxes you might incur elsewhere in your investing life, it has, in effect, a negative tax burden.
Elsewhere, traditional ways of life, still beautifully and scrupulously pursued, seemed to be under threat.
The fact that the houses were rented suited the academic way of life as young lecturers could easily move elsewhere following a promotion.
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The moral majority will tighten its hold on corporate life, first in America, but then elsewhere too.
But in practice the city's daily life is being controlled by troops (from elsewhere in China), foreign journalists are being barred from entering and the most repressive measures in 20 years are in force.
He insisted it was fair to ask public sector workers to pay "a bit more" for their pensions - with an average rise in contributions of 3% - given that life expectancies were increasing and taxpayers were feeling the squeeze elsewhere.
"It will vary according to the mineral group and project life cycle but we are likely to see investors looking elsewhere in the region ... particularly if the South African government doesn't come out quite strongly and say what its plans for the sector are going forward, " says Simiso Velempini, South Africa analyst for global business risk consultancy Control Risks.
Why is the universe such that conscious life could evolve in it, and has it done so elsewhere?
If it can remain liquid on the leg of a lander, perhaps it can do so elsewhere and thus (hope springs eternal) support life.
But elsewhere farming and, therefore, settled life was impossible in the steppes, so the nomads scratched out a meagre existence by herding sheep and goats, and breeding horses and camels, living in close-knit tribal groups.
But Ward makes a good point when he says that we need to understand how and why life started here before we can quantify if and where it started elsewhere.
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