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If we found a thousand life forms across the universe, 995 of them would be carbon-based and living in water.
Drawn from what Nick Lane said
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Biochemist at University College London
I would say pretty fundamental. I wouldn’t like to say it’s impossible for life to start any other way, but water is everywhere. Water’s extremely good at what it does, and carbon works in water especially well. And carbon is everywhere. So, those things together make me think probabilistically, if we found 1,000 life forms, 995 of them would be carbon-based and living in water.
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