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   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
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   > The real problem is that scientists are blinkered into the belief that   
   > life of any sort /must/ have water, which is moronically silly.   
      
   Water has a range of qualities that make it suitable for complex   
   molecules. There is a lot of it around, it has such low energy,   
   it will be found in a reasonably pure state, it allows for   
   condensation reactions with polar leaving groups, it has   
   very strong hydrogen bonds, it dissolves salts...   
      
   > We have   
   > no idea what other, non-Earth, living may or may not need. In some   
   > cases water is probably poisonness to them.   
      
   We know organic chemistry pretty well.   
      
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