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Here's a rough metaphor for you: life is an engine (running cyclically) but it needs a manual kickstart (existing cycles) to get going.
by alanbernstein 3y ago
Here's a rough metaphor for you: life is an engine (running cyclically) but it needs a manual kickstart (existing cycles) to get going.
- at_a_remove 3y agoMore or less, yes. Very sloppily at first. My "look for life here" candidates are basically planets (or moons!) where a liquid solvent is present (so you can have chemistry happen more readily), warmer (faster reaction, so you can have the chemistry happen faster, and therefore again and again), and with cycles (not tidally locked, a moon helps). I'm still something of a carbon chauvinist, but I am open to different solvents and other chemistries.