Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests::Self-sustaining chemical reactions that could support biology radically different from life as we know it might exist on many different planets, a new study finds.

    • @LrdThndr
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      231 year ago

      Hydrogen is an element that, when left for long enough in sufficient quantities, begins to wonder where it came from.

    • @FooBarrington
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      151 year ago

      You can go one step further: life is just an area of low entropy keeping itself like that by increasing the entropy of its environment.

      We poop out randomness to keep ourselves not random.

      • @TheYear2525
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        61 year ago

        The purpose of life is to seek out and dissipate energy gradients.

        • @FooBarrington
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          51 year ago

          Due to this fact, I strongly believe that the ultimate purpose of intelligent life must be to find a way to reverse entropy, before there are no more energy gradients to dissipate.

      • @spittingimage
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        31 year ago

        I’ve never heard that theory described so succinctly.

        • @FooBarrington
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          31 year ago

          The first or the second? Cause I’ve been working on the first for years, but the second came to me in 5 seconds, so I hope it’s the first :D

    • Fuck spez
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      51 year ago

      I mean that is literally what we’re made of. You know those PCR COVID tests? The underlying process just makes DNA/RNA do what they would otherwise do inside the body, outside the body. Put some you-goo through that same process and it just starts replicating all by itself. Everything that makes you unique that’s wasn’t also a product of your environment is digitally encoded in that double helix, and all it wants or knows how to do is ffuuuuuuuuccckkkkkk

    • @scarabic
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      41 year ago

      You’re just a rabbit hole that math fell down.