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Re:The Fermi Paradox by sampo on Friday December 26, 2014 @08:27AM (#8798793)
In a 1993 article, Carl Sagan considered the atmospheric oxygen content "at least suggestive of biology" (Conclusions, 3rd paragraph).

http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~dag/publications/1993_ASear...

Re:The Fermi Paradox by maaku on Friday December 26, 2014 @12:54PM (#8799490)
Am I supposed to disagree with that? High atmospheric oxygen content is suggestive of biology. So is seasonal blooms of methane on a planet like Mars. Is that suggestive that there is life on Mars? Yes! Can we definitively infer that there is presently life on Mars? Not yet.