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Planets with confirmed life are a sample size of one. For the moment, having corporeal form is unique to life here.
by StevePerkins 5y ago
Planets with confirmed life are a sample size of one. For the moment, having corporeal form is unique to life here.
- beowulfey 5y agoWell, yes, but I was just pointing out that not all life is likely to become hydrocarbons. It was kind of a fluke.
- garmaine 5y agoLife is very likely to be carbon based (what other element makes 4 bonds, as is necessary for 3D structures?). Where life is carbon-based, decaying life in the absence of oxygen produces hydrocarbons.
- hanche 5y agoThere is silicon. Some sci-fi authors have postulated silicon-based life in their stories. (It’s been too long, I don’t remember which.) As with most science fiction, how plausible that is, is a different matter altogether.