Digging deeper secret world mission12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() “How do we move beyond that?” Johnson asks. But because scientists can’t reliably say that ET life should look, chemically, like Earth life, seeking those signatures could mean we miss beings that might be staring us in the face. Much of astrobiology research involves searching for chemical “biosignatures”-molecules or combinations of molecules that could indicate the presence of life. If you want to find life, look first at the only way you know life can exist: in places kind of like Earth, with chemistry kind of like Earthlings’. “There’s this old maxim that if you lose your keys at night, the first place you look is under the lamppost,” says Johnson, who is now an associate professor at Georgetown University. If Johnson’s musings are correct, the current focus of the hunt for aliens-searching for life as we know it-might not work for finding biology in the beyond. “Even places that seem familiar-like Mars, a place that we think we know intimately-can completely throw us for a loop,” she says. Inside its pages, she probed the idea that other planets were truly other, and so their inhabitants might be very different, at a fundamental and chemical level, from anything on this world. Her typed musings would later turn into the 2020 popular science book The Sirens of Mars. Johnson found the work exciting (the future alien genome project!), but it also made her wonder: What if extraterrestrial life didn’t have DNA or RNA or other nucleic acids? What if their cells got instructions in some other biochemical way?Īs an outlet for heretical thoughts like this, Johnson started writing in a style too lyrical and philosophical for scientific journals. As an astronomy postdoc at Harvard University in the late 2000s and early 2010s she investigated how astronomers might use genetic sequencing-detecting and identifying DNA and RNA-to find evidence of aliens. Later, Johnson became a professional at looking. “It was on that trip that the idea of looking for life in the universe began to make sense to me,” Johnson says. The thought opened up the cosmic real estate, and the variety of life, she imagined might be beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Even if a landscape seemed strange and harsh from a human perspective, other kinds of life might find it quite comfortable. Her true epiphany, though, wasn’t about the hardiness of life on Earth or the hardships of being human: It was about aliens. “It felt like it stood for all of us, huddled under that rock, existing against the odds,” Johnson says. To her surprise, a tiny fern lived underneath it, having sprouted from ash and cinder cones. ![]() Looking down, she turned over a rock with the toe of her boot. Johnson wandered away from the other young researchers she was with and toward a distant ridge of the 13,800-foot summit. Its dried lava surface was so different from the eroded, tree-draped mountains of her home state of Kentucky. The # next to the note means that the note has to be raised by half a tone and blah blah blah.Sarah Stewart Johnson was a college sophomore when she first stood atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano. We can follow this to know what note is which. The only difficulty now is to know how to read sheet music. So we find the "flow my tears sheet music" and there you go: Maybe we have to play the missing part of the song. Googling Dolandi directs you to the wikipedia page Oh, and failing a note also means death by poison gas. Clicking on one of the tubes on the wall creates the appropriate note, and plays it during the time the lever indicates. This instruments you have here are meant to be used to play notes: Only one of the levers can be ON at the time. Should thy desires be thwarted weep not for thyself, but for Dolandi. One is a sheet of music that lacks a bit. When you step above the first S, jump to "spell it" again, then to the U and back to the S. SO the word we have to spell out is "ABYSSUS". "the first Darkness": "Abyssus" means abyss, which is a "deep or seemingly bottomless chasm" (thanks, google), which is kind of like a darkness."the eigth part": "Abyssus abyssum invocat, in voce cataractarum tuarum omnia excelsa tua, et fluctus tui super me transierunt.".At this point we can google "psalm 41 latin":."two score and first psalm": If you google "two score", the meaning is "being ten more than thirty", therefore forty."Write as a learned man would": Since everything we've found was Latin, we'll write in Latin too. ![]() Failing means smelling some delicious poisonous gas. The thing is about stepping on the letters in the correct order. Look to Jerome's Work on the two score and first Pslam, the eigth part, the first Darkness To proceed, write as a Learned Man would. In this first room, you'll find a paper on the ground. ![]()
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