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Life

Title text: Reading astrobiology ruined the universe for me.

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There's no way you're a real alien. You're too humanoid. Come on, like, what are the odds of you being bilaterally symmetrical just like us?

Intelligent life evolves on objects with mass. Mass has gravity. Therefore there is a clear up-down distinction but no left-right distinction. Feet need to be different from hands, but the left and right hands have no reason to differ.

How else are you gonna do it?

Okay but how come you have a head and face just like humans?

Any being that reacts quickly to its environment necessarily puts most of its sensory array next to the processing unit. Are you stupid? Do you ever see an animal with its brain on the opposite side from its eyes?

Transmission speed.

Huh. So there's just convergent evolution throughout the universe?

Maybe the solution to the fermi paradox is there's no point going out for xenobiology when we have perfectly good biology at home.

Same rules everywhere, so why not?

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But then what are you doing here if not to meet us?

I don't care about you. I'm just here for valuable minerals.

Life is the same everywhere.

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We've incinerated the crust. Everyone is dead.

Hey, I get it, fellow life form.

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