"Exo-life" or "life in the universe"?

[Colin Robinson]

I believe we cant even imagine what life in the universe is like, they may thrive in ways that would seem amazing to us. Creatures that have rock bodies, water body, diamond skeleton and very adaptable creatures who can fly then dive into a liquid and breath in that enviromnent. The movies? please we should be thinking way out the box!

Most of what you describe is already known to exist on Earth.

If you are looking for a creature that can fly, dive and breath in a liquid medium, have you considered the flying fish?

For one with a rock body, how about the reef-building coral polyp?

For a water body... Don't all living bodies on this planet consist largely of water, including the human body?

A diamond skeleton would be something new...

[Colin Robinson]

A comment I made earlier, which drew comments from others...

"We don't know" is not an answer that satisfies our curiosity.

So why should curiosity distort the reality of the situation .. that being "unknown" ?
Geee, I thought most humans learned to keep their wants and desires separate from reality around the pre-adolescence years !? (Apparently not !)

"We don't know" is not an answer that satisfies our curiosity.

That has little to do with empiricism.

Unless we had a want/desire to know something – either due to curiosity, or because we hoped to use the knowledge to satisfy some other wish – why would we bother to find out about empirical reality or talk about it?

Science exists precisely because people have not been satisfied with "don't know" answers.