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

    If life is just an evolved entity composed of randomly assembled machines, as some biologists claim, then it begs the question of wether or not there might be 'life' out there that is not water based, but based on say, sand -- or silicon.

    That is not what "begs the question" means.
    http://begthequestion.info/

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