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But we want them to tell us, so to speak, have a little conversation with them.

Okay, we use the breadcrumbs that you left behind in order to track you.

We now know where you come from.

When does that happen?

Well, I'm really glad you asked that question, Chuck, because it gives me a chance to explain.

While you're describing my worst nightmares.

Well, we need to understand in what conditions it can trick us.

We want to know if I give it a different gas, if I recapitulate ancient Earth, will it start tricking me?

Oh, yeah.

We created and then we wanted to see its limits.

I want to see what it will look like if I create a Martian condition, for example.

So that's the next step we're going for, for sure.

I mean, this is a big problem for astrobiology because we always talk about, there's only one planet, there's only one life.

But if you think about it, our life has gone through many, many, many, many, many different versions of itself.

It reinvents.

Like over 99.99% of everything that ever lived on this planet has gone extinct.

And that includes likely microbes.

We don't have an understanding of what kind of signatures they left behind and what alien life, which is our own past, may have looked like.

Bushes.

First of all, life may not be as good as you think, right?