XPost: rec.arts.sf.science, rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Your Name  schrieb:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > We may know *Earth-based* organic chemistry "pretty well" ... we know   
   > absolutely nothing about extraterrestrial organic chemistry.   
      
   Are you suggesting that, for example, the enthalpy of formation of   
   Methane is different on other worlds?   
      
   Or you actually not know what "organic chemistry" is?   
      
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