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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:mod parent up by 2.7182 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're right. I should have said "follow the quatloos".

  2. Re:But without water, there's no life (as we know by syrinx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We come in peace, shoot to kill.

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    Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.