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#518 - Lee Cronin - What Will Alien Life Look Like?
Modern Wisdom
The Evolution of Life on Earth
If life started on a planet where the gravity was less strong, we might not have needed to wait so long to get to multisocial life form. On a planet that didn't have as much gravity, organisms would be able to grow more quickly. And then they moved on to what they called very exotic types of alien life. They said that if you had silicon-based life, metabolisms could be so slow that thoughts might take millions of years. So can we have silicon life? What other exotic types of life are there and can thoughts take a million years? Wow, I think a thought can take as long as it needs, as long as the environment doesn't change such that
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