XPost: rec.arts.sf.science, rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: davidjohnston29@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2018-04-27 6:32 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2018-04-27 08:01:48 +0000, Paul Colquhoun said:   
   >> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:40:08 +1200, Your Name    
   >> wrote:   
   >> | On 2018-04-27 05:32:22 +0000, Thomas Koenig said:   
   >> |> 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...   
   >> |   
   >> | All true, on Earth. Many other planets and other life forms are almost   
   >> | certainly completely different.   
   >>   
   >> No, chemistry and physics are the same everywhere. Water will have the   
   >> same properties throughout the universe.   
   >   
   > Oh for God's sake ... water is the same everywhere, but *life* is not.   
   > The point has nothing to do with water itself.   
   >   
   > Earth-based life may rely on water (and even that's dubious in some   
   > cases),   
      
   No it isn't.   
      
   but alien life does *NOT* have to rely on water. Too many   
   > scientists believe alien life does have to have water. They can't   
   > understand that life on other planets may not have anything to do with   
   > water. They stupidly look at only planets and moons with water because   
   > they're blinkered.   
      
   What else would they look for?   
      
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