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cold-scale · green2021cold
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- green2021cold
- Claim ID
- cold-scale
- Assertion
- Many past claims of life detection later proved incorrect or ambiguous, such as the 1996 report of possible fossils in the Martian meteorite ALH84001. The authors propose a seven-level Confidence of Life Detection (CoLD) scale: the lowest levels cover the first identification of a possible biosignature; higher levels require corroboration by independent lines of evidence and ruling out alternative, non-biological explanations.
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history includes many claims of life detection that later proved incorrect or ambiguous
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