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Not just any star, a neutron star. Sounds really wierd yet according to the radio astronomer Frank Drake this might just work.

He envisioned the nuclei of atoms being closely packed to other nuclei, A nucleus made out of whole molecules.

Strange idea isn't it, I just decided to bring this topic up to see what others might think, and try to bring some activity.

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/N/neutronstarlife.html

Yeah, it's just so wierd.

If only we could do more about space, venture out more frequently from our little blue planet and venture farther, there's so many things we could find, so many things so different to what we're used to finding here on earth.

lol ok. umm... I don't have my textbook handy.
It was something along the lines of our size and how long our civilization lasts, and how our predominant forse is gravity. If you were on a white dwarf where the strong forse is predominant then you can have really tiny civilizations appearing and for them their lifetime would be fractions of seconds.
... something like that.

sorry, that's still really vague. sweatdrop If you're still intersted then pm me and I'll try and find that textbook of mine. blaugh

No, not yet, since the most we can do in terms of searching for life on distant worlds is to analyze the planet/star's chemical composition and look for gases that result from life via spectral analysis or whatever they call it.

Problem is, life on a star is so bizarre, how do we know they produce the same waste products creatures on our planet produce? The way they act could be entirely different seeing as how they are on a world very different from what we have on earth, or any other planet for that matter.

So we're not sure, we can only dream.

to us it seems like an extreme fast forward since they come and go in only seconds. To them though time would pass just as it does for us. It's all relative.

This really is a fascinating subject, it opens up so many wonderful possibilities if life is not only carbon based then we could expect to find life forms on planets where we had previously though the environment would be too extreme for life, even gas giants where there's no surface where we would think things like, "how could life form here in such an unforgiving environment and how could life form with stand upon; theres a short but good article on life on Jupiter link. This site has a lot of good information for some one looking for the lowdown on the idea. Non carbon based life is an amazing thing to discover, and just imagine if it was all around us in our solar system. Its exciting to just think about how we would have to rethink our theories on how life began on our own planet.