It seems we are not alone. I’m kinda scared bros…

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just because it happened this way here, why would you assume it would happen that way elsewhere?

    There’s other molecules that can do the job, and that’s assuming that they’re even even carbon based (as apposed to say, silicon.) Even on earth, there’s microbes that use arsnic instead of phosphorus in their DNA.

    Hell, it’s a 1-in-4 chance they have the same chiralty we do (amino acids and sugars turn in the same way. Most of not all life in earth, amino acids have a left hand spiral, and use sugars that spiral to the right).

    Absolutely no reason they have the same biochemistry we do- they would be, after all, entirely alien to us. Actually, that they appear to recognizably humanoid is the first tip off this is fake, the next is that they apparently have dna. Then, that they have recognizable markers at all.

    If a species evolved independently on another planet… it’d extremely unlikely they would look anything like us.

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      1 year ago

      Your arguing against people that already mapped out the DNA. There is no alternative system that we know. If there was the DNA on these creatures would be unmappable. It would be something we haven’t seen before.