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avaldes
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Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien
Habitable planets with the exact chemistry to support your species without expensive or slow terraforming.
namarie
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1) Not really scarce on a galactic scale and 2) if different species' chemistry are radically different (and why wouldn't they be?) there wouldn't be competition even if habitable planets were scarce.
jessaustin
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Those could be scarce on a solar scale, but probably not on a
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