(January 13, 2016 at 11:33 pm)AAA Wrote:(January 13, 2016 at 10:19 pm)pool the great Wrote: People seem to have this concept backwards.
There is no rare conditions that can permit life. This is false concept. Life evolves in such a manner so that it can survive in a given environment - this is what evolution states. Adjusting to the environment. The environment is not what adjusts itself to facilitate life.
Am I right? I hope I am.
Life doesn't have the kind of plasticity that you seem to think it does. If it could adapt to a given environment, then it would live on almost all planets
So we shouldn't expect to find life in environments that stray too far outside our own; like, say, nuclear reactors, or anaerobic areas with insane levels of temperature and pressure.
Perhaps someone ought to let them know they're impossible...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
