
Ep 166: Newsletter 18: A weekend of Twitter
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Is Carbon Based Life a Good Idea?
Astrobiology is about what could life elsewhere in the universe consist of. We don't have any astrobiology to study, but you can constrain what it's possible to make life out of. It's no point postulating an alien life form that is made of nothing but hydrogen. Carbon on its own can bond with more things than all other chemical elements combined. But if you want genetic information to be passed on, which means you want evolution, you want life based on carbon.
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