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Side question: Why is the sea on Earth not saturated with salts? Also, is water saturated with salt incompatible with life? With life on Earth perhaps, but I d
by gus_massa 2y ago
Side question: Why is the sea on Earth not saturated with salts?
Also, is water saturated with salt incompatible with life? With life on Earth perhaps, but I don't think it's not impossible in general.
> Which are most likely to bear life given our current hypotheses around the origins of life?
I think there are still too many details unknown to have a good guess.
- carlmr 2y ago>With life on Earth perhaps, but I don't think it's not impossible in general. I don't think even that. There are extremophile bacteria that tolerate very high levels of salinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile