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Ammonia-Based Lifeforms

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Importance of Temporal Cycles in Exoecosystem Growth

All life eventually needs to be recycled around those basic building blocks again to be reused or life won't last long. Stable is good though of course you also need some change and chaos to disrupt ecosystems if you want them to change, as otherwise critters get hyper-specialized that niche. More generally a world with constant crazy changes or really complex cycles is not a place we think of as being super friendly for life to begin and dwell.

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