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544 points mooreds | 2 comments | 21 Oct 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.487s | source
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bikamonki ◴[21 Oct 24 23:55 UTC] No.41909790[source]▶
So many solar systems out there, life evolved in many planets for sure. No proof but no doubt.
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ekianjo ◴[22 Oct 24 00:25 UTC] No.41909966[source]▶
Life? Probably. Something that has thinking capabilities? Much more doubtful.
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m3kw9 ◴[22 Oct 24 00:28 UTC] No.41909978[source]▶
One proof is that we are thinking, and so are dogs, cats and monkeys to a lesser extent.
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ekianjo ◴[22 Oct 24 00:29 UTC] No.41909988[source]▶
That's Earth. There is no model to say that life always goes on that way. We just have no clue.
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caust1c ◴[22 Oct 24 00:35 UTC] No.41910032[source]▶
I think there's a pretty compelling argument that could be made that matter assembling itself into conscious beings follows pretty naturally from life itself, given a long enough time horizon and assuming the properties of basic elements holds constant throughout the universe which seems pretty likely.
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1. billti ◴[22 Oct 24 03:55 UTC] No.41911043[source]▶
I’m no physicist/biologist, but I always find it odd when they look for water on other planets to see “if life could exist”.

Sure, maybe that’s a requirement for the type of life we on earth know about, but I don’t see why other elements couldn’t have also formed in just the right way to be able to reproduce, and maybe eventually “think”.

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2. DubiousPusher ◴[22 Oct 24 05:23 UTC] No.41911444[source]▶
It's a matter of water being a great place for carbon based chemistry to occur. Why carbon? Because it is so dynamic. It readily forms complex molecules which interact in interesting ways.

Looking at other forms of chemistry we don't see much as naturally varying as carbon. Though I have heard some chemists and biologists hypothesize about sikicon based life. At high temperatures it forms the kinds of dynamic connections that carbon does.