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Old June 30th 18, 07:21 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Paul Schlyter[_3_]
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Default The problem of investigating life on moons that could host it

On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:23:29 -0600, Chris L Peterson
wrote:
Even if alien life uses
the same genetic chemistry as Earth life, there's no chance it's

going
to code for the same genes (and especially for all the inactive
segments).


The chance may be negligibly small, but claiming that the chance is
zero is an exaggeration.