[Dimensio]

Why is it specious to assume that carbon based life, such as that found here, is the only kind of life possible? Actually, I wasn't speaking of carbon-based versus not carbon-based, but rather configuration of life forms (whether carbon-based or not).

Carbon-based life can exist in a rather vast range of environments. It's the more "complex" carbon-based life forms that have more rigid limits, and thus the faulty assumption -- IMO -- is that complex carbon-based life can only exist in a single specific type of environment rather than there being a range of possible configurations for a range of environments.

[Ahban]

Then I say again, for possible penetration, how do you explain my point that I made in the last paragraph of #256?

Those places MAY have simple life, and may not, but they were likely seeded from Earth. Even with that kind of boost, no advanced life has evolved to suit any of their various conditions.