Somewhere out there, there may be an alien life form imagining how terrible a planet with molten dihydrogen monoxide in the atmosphere might be.

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• SkyeLight@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  [off topic?]

  I’m reminded of a very old science fiction story.

  Earthman crash lands on Mars. He wanders around and finds a village. It’s fully automated to provide the residents with anything they need. But because it was built by Martians everything is toxic to the human.

  The village tries to adapt, but his biochemistry is too alien. Finally, starving, unable to go on, the just lays down in one of the beds and gives up.

  When he wakes up, everything has changed. The village smells wonderful, the music sounds great and the bowl of food next to the bed is the best thing he ever ate. The astronaut is so happy that he can’t stop wagging all three tails.

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  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wow, I was prepared for Martian Chronicles or maybe a PKD story, but I love it! <3

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ironically it doesn’t matter what the form looks like, there’s a 50/50 shot everytime life develops if it’s right (us) of left (not us) biochemistry.

    It literally doesn’t matter which happens, functionally the life could be 100% same except a mirror image.

    Anytime two actually separate lines of life encounter each other, there’s a fight on the bacterial level of the ecosystem, and the “new” one will win 100% of the time due to stuff that would make this comment too long to read.

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    • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not too long to read. I dare you.

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m gonna need a little more than that.

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Thats a really fun concept but I came her to tell you that your username is great

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  • FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fuck yeah thanks. Dig that rabid shit

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• becausechemistry@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Here, water is mostly a liquid but there’s a ton in the gaseous state in the air.

  A lot of places, water is just another type of rock.

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Titan for instance is a really interesting moon. The entire surface, everything that looks like rock, is really water and ammonia ice. That’s just what their rock is made of.

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  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This. The window in which water isn’t solid or a gas is very, very small.

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    • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But that’s also the window where life is likely to form and be possible, so it’s unlikely there are aliens who think it’s weird.

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      [H2O as plasma has entered the chat]

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is why Signs was stupid.

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• albbi@piefed.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ugly bags of mostly water!

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• python@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ooh, there’s a great Asimov short story about this! Victory Unintentional (1942)

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