Extraterrestrial Life Could Look Like the Flying Spaghetti Monster
To find life on Mars, scientists should keep their eyes peeled for pasta. Hot-spring-loving microbes create rock formations that look like fettuccini or capellini, according to a new NASA-funded study published online April 30 in the journal Astrobiology. Such pasta-shaped formations could be the first clues to life on other planets, said study author Bruce Fouke, a geobiologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “If we go to another planet with a rover, we would love to see living microbes or we’d love to see little green women and men in spacecraft,” Fouke told Live Science. “But the reality … Read more