Sunday, July 18, 2010

Considering the abundance of life giving elements in the universe is it accurate to think of life as an?

organic film that covers the surface of sporadic planets close enough to a heat source that chemical reactions are stimulated?

Yes we are aware but that is the product of a few hundred years of evolution on a planet that is fortunate enough to be relatively stable for a couple billion years..
No, because for all anyone knows right now life as an organic process could exist in the watery or eutectic melt mantle of a body quite distant from a star, perhaps heated by tidal forces from its primary, even a brown dwarf, or possibly in nebulae or protoplanetary discs, and this is in any case the life we know about - a single example. I don

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