Comment Re:Just because life could survive there... (Score 2) 13
There is a lot of talk about carbon and hydrogen, in the linked statement, but I miss nitrogen in the story. Life as it has developed on Earth totally depends on the differences between strong (nitrogen) and weak (hydrogen) bonds. It takes an awful lot of energy to break the triple bond of atmospheric nitrogen to be able to use it in organic compounds. For example, Adenine contains a lot of it, and is used in DNA, RNA and the energy carrier ATP / ADP.