Earlier today, TED released the speech from Dimitar Sasselov titled “How we found hundreds of Earth-like planets“. [The youtube version of the speech is embedded at the bottom of this post]

The title of the speech is pretty much what the speech is all about, but at about 16 minutes into the talk, Mr. Sasselov uses two similes for introducing an incredibly powerful perspective: the significance of life-as-we-know-it on a universal scale relies in its duration.

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