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   From: burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll   
      
   On 27-4-2018 7:32, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   > Your Name  schrieb:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   Does anybody in this newsgroup realize,that looking for life in   
   our local sun system proves nothing?   
   For about 4 billion years earth life spores have been distributed   
   in the solar system, so life on some moon or planet can have a common   
   source.   
   Even today we find Martian rocks in Antarctica, which proves that   
   collisions with asteroids distribute bits and pieces  between moons and   
   planets.   
   Live on earth might even have been (re)seeded  form some of the other   
   moons/planets.   
      
   So if you want to find fresh life starts, look elsewhere in other solar   
   systems.   
   Oh, and not to close to our own system.......)   
      
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