In that case we have to include all the extremophiles in the category of "life as we know it". That would inevitably broaden your "extremely narrow range that would allow life as we know it to exist" somewhat, wouldn't it?
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.'
