I’m so excited to discover a totally different take on life because it will help us truly define what life is.
Then again if we find a similar take on life (carbon based, compatible chemistry to life on earth) then that’s pretty interesting too, implying either panspermia or that there’s something special about this configuration. It also likely means we have more potential for useful discoveries from that life system, as well as threats.
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I’m so excited to discover a totally different take on life because it will help us truly define what life is.
Then again if we find a similar take on life (carbon based, compatible chemistry to life on earth) then that’s pretty interesting too, implying either panspermia or that there’s something special about this configuration. It also likely means we have more potential for useful discoveries from that life system, as well as threats.
You will dig this if you haven’t seen it.
The aliens will not be silicon
https://youtu.be/2nbsFS_rfqM
You say that, but…
StarTrek is not a documentary.
LIAR!
Or that it’s just as inevitable a result of chemical reactions under certain conditions as mixing baking soda and vinegar.