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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 4 months ago

How about a civilization that doesn't have chemistry at all? Set off a von Neumann machine to colonize the universe and biology is irrelevant after that.

You ignored the other "maybes" I threw out there, BTW. It only takes one of those to work in one situation and the Fermi Paradox is off to the races.