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Given that they've found living organisms in nuclear reactors and other extreme conditions it doesn't seem likely that "earth like conditions" are a requirement
by nox101 2y ago
Given that they've found living organisms in nuclear reactors and other extreme conditions it doesn't seem likely that "earth like conditions" are a requirement for life
- zdragnar 2y agoThere's a difference between life forms that can survive a particular environment, and all of the phases of incremental steps towards forming the first life in such an environment. There's nothing to do but speculate until proven otherwise, since we don't actually know what those steps exactly are. My personal suspicion is that we are more likely to find life in earth like conditions than anywhere else, though.
- mrangle 2y agoAnd yet nuclear reactors are on Earth. Again, people underestimate the factors involved. Have these organisms been shown to derive from an alien taxonomy?