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Does earth life need water?

I'm wondering do all forms of earth life need water to survive?

I'm thinking of extremophiles particularly. Even if they don't need water now, did their ancestors? Could they have come into existence without water?

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    yes without it chemical reactions could not take place. bonds would not be able to be broken down.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    "Well life as we know does require water but we do not know about life elsewhere that may evolve in situations were liquid water is scarce and there are other liquids around."

    -RGB

    "With out water life either dies or in the case of some bacteria and other little critters, goes dormant and ceases "life functions" until there is water available."

    - Ronald Brak

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    --"Why do scientists assume ALL existence interior the universe demands water?" they do no longer. there have been examples of complicated molecules that are generic to be possible in different solvents (yet never actually seen in nature). The confusion could come from making the version between what all of us understand must be possible, and what we actually understand. specific, you ought to think of of certainly one of those existence that ought to exist in liquid methane, to illustrate. How do you attempt for it? What are the derivative molecules which you may seek for, once you deliver an automatic probe to hunt for existence? this is the section we don't understand. So, for now, as quickly as we do attempt for existence, we nonetheless attempt to locate the kind of existence that we do understand (or that we expect of we understand). we are additionally gaining knowledge of that water is plenty greater worry-loose interior the universe than we initially theory. there is even water on earth Mercury (no longer plenty, and not actual available, yet nonetheless, it truly is there). there is a few sort of water on or around each planet in our image voltaic equipment. Neptune's satellite tv for pc Triton has its total mantle being in general water... with maximum of it probable nonetheless in liquid sort! consequently, there could be plenty water attainable "accessible" that searching for it quite is going to shop us sufficiently busy, with no need to hunt for stuff we don't (yet) understand. it is not an assumption that existence is impossible without water. it truly is basically the performance of searching for something we DO understand.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    they need water to survive yes. with out it they cant its all true.

  • As far as we know, yes

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