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Old 5th July 2008, 12:50   #49
Charles Foster Kane
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I don't know about what's required for life, i.e. how many amino acids are needed to start a chain reaction, which is essentially what life is. Life is thought to have started very quickly here though, but had a hard time evolving from single celled organisms to multi-cellar ones. the latter happening only 500 million years ago IIRC. Perhaps one answer to the Fermi paradox is that advanced beings propagate by spreading their RNA/DNA seeds thoughout the universe. Being light and robust those things could move pretty damn quick.
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