Carmi Levy

Sci-fi looks to the work you do to try to figure out what life could look like out there, how strange and different it might be.

Okay, well, let's get to just those.

Sci-fi versus biology.

How close did this movie get?

The organisms, they're called astrophage.

They absorb sun energy.

They store it efficiently.

From your perspective, is this at all even scientifically plausible?

I'm trying to put that in lay terms.

I'm thinking of like Einstein's equation, E equals MC squared, where energy equals mass times some huge number, speed of light squared.

It's that equal sign, life doing the equal sign operation that we don't quite understand.

Now, it is a stretch, but some microbes actually live off of extreme energy sources, things like radiation, chemicals, deep sea thermal vents.

So, yes, it's a huge leap to go from a thermal vent to a star.

But theoretically, maybe.

possible?

I can do that.

I just don't want to.

But feeding directly on stellar radiation, I mean, how could that even work?

I guess the answer is we don't know.

Interesting.