This is one of my favorite subjects, thanks for posting, @taxidermy183

I think about those deep sea vents, where they did not expect to find life. Crushing pressure, no life fueling sunlight, and what did they find? Life. A different type of life. John Varley, one of my favorite speculative fiction writers envisioned giant gaseous beings from the gas giants, Saturn & Jupiter. In other words, it's speciocentric of us to assume that life only occurs within our mechanic or chemistry.

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Carbon lifeforms will most likely be found in the Goldilocks zone, I can only imagine what other life forms could exist out there. In fact, the 'Verse could be teeming with all kinds of life. Hopefully, just not Mynocks. What a pain in the butt THOSE things would be!

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