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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] And yet we [i]are[/i] unique. I'm willing to bet a whole dollar that you won't be able to find Earthlike life anywhere else. How that idea can be twisted by certain people into "that must mean we're the only folks in the universe" is beyond my desire to comprehend. Having said that, there is an easy way to either prove or disprove this. If life can be found on, oh, say Europa, then the idea of life being rare gets blown out of the water. No pun intended. Once is chance, but twice is a pattern. Life developing seperately in two locations in a single solar system is a great argument for life being able to arise just about anywhere. Beyond that, such a discovery could say for sure whether our "type" of life is unique or not. As it stands now, I see no reason why anything about Earth life needs to be universal. All we need to start are self-replicating molecules, and it is likely that there were a whole host of those even here. DNA happened to "win" on Earth, but why should that extend to other planets? If, on the other hand, you could show that just one extraterrestrial ecosystem was based on structures similar to our own (cells, etc), then I will happily concede that life is far more limited in the developmental choices it can make then I am assuming. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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