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Water Not a Good Enough Guide To Find Alien Life

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-why-i-look-in-pudding dept.

An anonymous reader noted an article in Cosmos that questions the conventional wisdom of the "follow the water" strategy of seeking extraterrestrial life, saying "There's an awful lot of places where water could exist — either on the surface of the Earth, or deep within it — yet life is largely concentrated in a small sliver of this."

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  1. Don't follow the water by 2.7182 · · Score: 3, Funny

    To find aliens, follow the latinum!

  2. Dumbest thread in months by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't caim having read every single one, but I think this is the dumbest news item in Slashdot in months.

    Maybe intelligence is just concentrated in a small sliver of it!

    1. Re:Dumbest thread in months by jgagnon · · Score: 3, Funny

      The presence of intelligent life on this planet is greatly exaggerated.

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      Remember to maintain your supply of /facepalm oil to prevent chafing.
  3. Re: Stupid... by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Funny

    and how much of the oceans are devoid of life?

    The black, oily, part.

  4. Re:But without water, there's no life (as we know by savi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah, but you see, based on our sample size of ONE planet, we've determined the conditions for life on all planets.