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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: Stupid... by Em+Emalb · · Score: 0, Troll

    Acording to my latest WAG, approximately 43.19283746555% (repeating of course) of the earth's oceans are devoid of life.

    More, if your mom eats at a seafood buffet the day the calculations are run. ;)

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