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Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests (www.space.com)
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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.

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[โ€“] FlyingSquid 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A new study of alien life that we have no idea about? Gotcha.

[โ€“] ForgotAboutDre 7 points 1 year ago

If you want to find alien life you need to know what to look for. If life can exist outside of what we have observed in nature. Then investigating these possibilities will increase the number of markers we have to search for life.