Comment Re:So copyright is not just who can copy? (Score 1) 338
Gimme a compelling story, and I'll engage my brain's suspension-of-disbelief-engine in return.
Evolution would suggest that its biochemistry would probably be very much like that of earth life,
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only because the terrestrial evoltionary process is biased by being immersed in a watery environment. I fail to see that a water-chemistry evolution would be optimal on a planet brimming with liquid ammonia or liquid hydrocarbons.
For life to even stand a chance, you're going to need readily available raw materials, a "solvent" that's compatible (chemcally) with the raw materials, and an energy transfer mechanism. Water is top-of-the-list as solvents go, simply because we are currently using it that way. However, I have difficulty being so arrogant as to declare it to be "the one true solvent for all to use." Put your biological system in a 900 atm pressure environment, and tell me that the chemistry all works the same as it does here on Earth. Now bump the ambient temperature to 300C and do it again. There are way too many environmental permutations for my puny monkey-brain to comprehend.
Wikileaks can do no wrong. Neither can SHE Who Shall Not Be Named.
FTFY. She's going to have my ass if she catches me commenting on
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