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Question 22 MSQ 2017 Medium MSQ +4.00 marks

Consider the following paragraphs: Somewhere, on some remote planet set at precisely the right distance from a star of just the right magnitude and the right temperature, on the other side of our galaxy, there is at this moment a committee nearing the end of a year-long study of our own tiny, provincial solar system. The intelligent beings of that place are putting their signatures (numbers of some sort, no doubt) to a paper which asserts, with finality, that life is out of the question here and the place is not worth an expedition. Their instruments have detected the presence of that most lethal of all gases, oxygen, and that is the end of that. They had planned to come, bringing along mobile factories for manufacturing life-giving ammonia, but what’s the use of risking strangulation? The only part of this scenario that I really believe in is that committee. I take it as an article of faith that this is the most fundamental aspect of nature that we know about. If you are going to go looking for evidences of life on other celestial bodies, you need special instruments with delicate sensors for detecting the presence of committees. If there is life there, you will find consortia, collaborating groups, working parties, all over the place. At least this is true for our kind of life. Which of the following statements is/are TRUE of the paragraph above?

Select all that apply.

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