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Re:An Ultrahot Exoplanet Has Metallic Skies by imhoguy on Saturday August 18, 2018 @05:56PM (#17791015)
Remids me metal based life forms[0] - mind-blowing.

[0] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20906-life-like-cells...

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Re:An Ultrahot Exoplanet Has Metallic Skies by _cereal on Saturday August 18, 2018 @08:53PM (#17791834)
This reminds me about the Scaly-foot gastropod[1] mollusc which "possesses a trilayered structure comprised of a mineralized iron sulfide–based outer layer (OL) containing greigite..."[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-foot_gastropod [2] http://www.pnas.org/content/107/3/987

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Re:An Ultrahot Exoplanet Has Metallic Skies by Razengan on Saturday August 18, 2018 @06:11PM (#17791093)
I wonder if the first extraterrestrial lifeforms we discover will be anything like we expect.
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Re:An Ultrahot Exoplanet Has Metallic Skies by SlowRobotAhead on Sunday August 19, 2018 @10:19AM (#17794415)
That article is from 2011, I wonder how much of it any continued to be developed?
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