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Well, someone needs to treat the hydrogen sulphide with excess methanol over an aluminium oxide catalyst. I suppose a robot could do it...

For a non-life explanation, you're really looking for something that could plausibly happen in (abiotic) nature, not an industrial process.



The only thing that could make a nerd happier than detecting alien life would be detecting alien robots.


Wait, what's the difference?


Alien life could just be microbial, while alien robots would require an advanced technological civilization, I guess


Well, there could be nanobots...




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