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Chemistry / Re: Why can't we live without water?
« on: 08/06/2018 16:38:59 »
It's the solvent of life. Metabolic and homeostatic systems need something like water to function. It's polar and so good for holding and transporting ions and proteins, is of a balanced pH and so a good buffer, it's self-cohesive and so consistent and gradient, has high heat capacity and so a good thermoregulator, and is abundant on Earth in a liquid state and so easily accessed and constituted.
We would need a replacer to keep life in solution and stasis. Nothing would substitute that we can tolerate, let alone allow us to be such dynamic organisms. It would require great modification to our biochemistry, or we'd have to upload to a quantum computer, to survive anhydrous. It can be argued life evolved on the basis of H2O chemistry.
We would need a replacer to keep life in solution and stasis. Nothing would substitute that we can tolerate, let alone allow us to be such dynamic organisms. It would require great modification to our biochemistry, or we'd have to upload to a quantum computer, to survive anhydrous. It can be argued life evolved on the basis of H2O chemistry.