(December 17, 2014 at 4:01 pm)polar bear Wrote:(December 17, 2014 at 3:42 pm)Beccs Wrote: Hope this helps
Thanks, it did!
Arent we a bit narrow minded to think that the way we live, die and decay will be the same process on different locations in the universe? It just so happens that we have evolved to breathe oxygen and expel carbon dioxide, and our plant system does this in reverse. Couldn't other forms of life (not necessarily human) breathe and expel different gasses. If we change the gases breathed and expelled, I am certain when we decay a different gas would be present.
Am I really off base on this? This fascinates me, I wish I would have studied science instead of finance in school.
It might seem so, but chemistry tells us what is possible and likely. In an environment even vaguely like Earth's, carbon-based life is the overwhelmingly likely possibility - no other element can do what carbon does.
Methane is a very simple compound, so any carbon-based life would very likely produce methane if only when decomposing.
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Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
