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DrBoby t1_irmcf01 wrote

Reply to comment by willywalloo in What lifeform has the shortest genetic sequence? by teafuck

So water is alive according to your definition. Internet viruses and chain mail are also alive,

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willywalloo t1_irsfrlv wrote

Quickly: Water doesn’t replicate, and the other two are non-physical and would not fit the standard definition for life prior to the last two centuries.

But new definitions are opening up. If we know one thing about life is that it always finds away. -Jurassic Park

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