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When dom96 said "there could be very many ways for life to exist" I understood that to mean there could be very many different "biological substrates" (for want
by tome 9y ago
When dom96 said "there could be very many ways for life to exist" I understood that to mean there could be very many different "biological substrates" (for want of a better term), nothing to do with how the species organises itself socially. The challenge is to come up with a hypothesis for "life" that's not based on long carbon chains.
- saiya-jin 9y agoI agree that only our imagination is the limit when discussing potential life. If matter that is not completely frozen (ie atoms stop moving) will eventually organize into some self-replication, any energy source could be enough. It could be on the surface on active star, neutron star (someone already tackled that in sci-fi), all kinds of dwarfs, nebulas, maybe even something living off dark energy? Or black hole. Energy means movement, and if matter/energy will eventually arrange into something 'alive', it might be enough.