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<blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 1937795" data-attributes="member: 6777">Given what we know about biology, tough, and what we believe is necessary to sustain life, wouldn't it actually make sense that, were life to evolve on another planet, that it would probably be pretty similar to earth? At least, isn't that not so much of a handwave, in a way? Isn't that actually a bit more &quot;realistic&quot; than silicon life forms or sentient balls of energy?I've always wanted to write a story about first contact where the first alien race we encounter turns out to be so much like our own (owning to the necessities for the develeopment of life in the universe) that we're actually kind of bummed. &quot;That's it? You mean you guys are just like us, but you have red skin? Lame!&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="buzz, post: 1937795, member: 6777"] Given what we know about biology, tough, and what we believe is necessary to sustain life, wouldn't it actually make sense that, were life to evolve on another planet, that it would probably be pretty similar to earth? At least, isn't that not so much of a handwave, in a way? Isn't that actually a bit more "realistic" than silicon life forms or sentient balls of energy? I've always wanted to write a story about first contact where the first alien race we encounter turns out to be so much like our own (owning to the necessities for the develeopment of life in the universe) that we're actually kind of bummed. "That's it? You mean you guys are just like us, but you have red skin? Lame!" :D [/QUOTE]

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