CellBioGuy comments on Astronomy, Astrobiology, & The Fermi Paradox I: Introductions, and Space & Time - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 26 July 2015 05:15:07PM *  7 points [-]

They're great candidates for life, especially given mounting ideas on the origin of life possibly being tied up with geochemistry and geology.

They're lousy candidates for big biospheres that utterly transform the geochemistry such that you could see it far away like ours has, or for complex life, since the total energy flux available in potentially clement environments is miniscule compared to here.