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by hoseja 1321 days ago
Why? DNA/RNA is a very specific self-replicating machinery good for carbon-abundant places with liquid hydrogen oxide. It's like living in an old apartment and concluding natural gas fire from the stovetop is the universal form of fire, or something. Most aliens are probably tangled magnetothermohydrodynamic plasmas in star atmospheres or something.