Xenology

[Dragonoake]

Exotic Biochemistries

"Suppose that in the early days of our own planet, when life was first forming in the primordial ocean, a thousand different schemes of life set sail. Let us further assume that one particular scheme won out over the rest, perhaps through the sheerest chance. The survival of that one scheme could now give us the false impression that it is the inevitable and only possible scheme."
-- Dr. Isaac Asimov



http://www.xenology.info/Xeno/8.0.htm

[Dragonoake]

Exotic Biochemistries

One thing I've wondered about, that isn't mentioned here, is the possibility that carbon dioxide would exist in Venus-like environments as a supercritical fluid, which has wide industrial uses as an organic solvent, so why could it not serve as a potential alternative to water in the evolution of life in such environments?