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Ammonia-Based Lifeforms

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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How to Find Plausible Alien Life Locations

NASA aims increasingly views ammonia as a biosane short to look for, since it's such a key ingredient in life-based chemistry. Pluto has cryovolcanoes that we think are up to the ammonia water mix onto its surface. This is all important for basic consideration, but also be mindful that when looking for astronomical biosumptures, we may take for granted they will exist.

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