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Comment author: JoshuaZ 10 December 2013 05:02:24AM 0 points [-]

There's barely any life in the Sahara. It looks a lot like spores to me.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

I want a measure of life that includes speed.

Do you mean something like the idea that if an environment is too harsh even if life can survive the chance that it will evolve into anything beyond a simple organism is low?