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• hector@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah it’s a coin toss whether they would want to check us out further, or use the galactic form of chlorine on the area.

  But odds are they would neither specifically know nor care. In likelihood I imagine there is other life, and not all based on carbon and water. There could be life on gas giants, even on suns, based on completely different chemical interactions.

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  • Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I also think about this a lot. For all we know the storm on Jupiter is thinking.

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Even humble life on it’s moons, living with ammonia in it’s blood or something, as they found on titan. Lakes of methane, with methane rain replete with lightning. Volcanic eruptions of water mixed with ammonia that kept it from freezing and had it in a semi solid molten state at -200 degrees f or whatever it is. From the probe landed there, forget when that was, on titan. But life could exist even there, even if not higher life, they do have liquid bodies. That is the factor for life, the right liquid to gas temperature changes with the right chemical reactions, and the spar of zeus.

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