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exboyfil

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2. Check out Scientific American Feb 2023

Reply to Think. Again. (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 20, 2024, 08:29 AM

Oct 2024

Life as We Don't Know It

Also a book called Weird Life

Extremophiles are also extensively studied (some archaea actually use UV in an equivalent process to photosynthesis).

There are scientists looking in a wide variety of different ways. Discovering an alternative biochemistry ..would be one of the most important discoveries in human history. Right now radiation resistance requires highly evolved processes (multiple redundant ways to avoid error propagation in DNA from damage from radiation).

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Interesting. Think. Again. Oct 2024 #1

Check out Scientific American Feb 2023 exboyfil Oct 2024 #2

Thanks! I will definitely check that out! Weird Life by David Toomey, right? Think. Again. Oct 2024 #3

Yes. Listened to the audiobook exboyfil Oct 2024 #4

Don't assume "we" are making that limitation. Exobiologists consider many possibilities. eppur_se_muova Oct 2024 #5