My question is why are we looking for carbon based, water drinking life?
The problem is that this is the only example we have, and even if scientists privately allow their imaginations to run wild, if you are trying to convince Bureaucrat Alpha at the Committee for Spending Taxpayer's Money on Science that it is worth closely examining the gravitational resonances of the moons of Jupiter for self-replication and patterns of consciousness, you are going to lose out to someone who says "how 'bout we look for liquid water instead since all life we know of needs that?"
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to start, with a little joke, when we get to mars in 30 years or so, I can guarantee that there will be intelligent lifeforms. the first person who looks in the mirror will see them (us)
My question is why are we looking for carbon based, water drinking life? I think other types of life would be at least as viable.
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