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its proxima centauri not alpha centauri you uncultured terran gently caress
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Toadvine posted:Every naysayer about extra terrestrial life is basing their pessimism on the very narrow span of human understanding and it's freaking pissing me off i mean sure there might be molten silicon/oxygen based life using metals or some insane alternative biochemistry somewhere but we probably wouldn't recognize it as alive even if we did find it. we're looking for what we know works rather than what could work
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thats like saying that its dumb to assume cars have four wheels because cars dont NEED four wheels, and that im a moron for insinuating that there is a reason that cars have four wheels how is silicon based life supposed to work when silicon dioxide is a solid? the complex molecules that sustain life as we know it are only possible with carbon based biochemistry you cant just transition to a new chemical base and have everything work out i mean yeah its technically possible, just like its possible for there to be three wheeled cars
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Aug 26, 2016 00:44
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OMGVBFLOL posted:using your analogy, you're assuming that transportation has to be cars, or that transportation is needed at all just like how a three wheeled car can work if its in a situation with a whole bunch of caveats, silicon based life or boron based life or life that uses ammonia as a base all do not have the same complexity but can totally work if you put a bunch of arbitrary limitations in place. it was a bad analogy yeah we could be looking for anaerobic ammonia bacteria somewhere but at that point we don't even know what we're looking for. it's pure conjecture that its even possible. what we do know is life is carbon based and requires liquid water so thats what were lookin for its not like anyone is discounting the possibility but the feasability of searching for it
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