QUOTE(PadawanOsswe @ Mar 6 2006, 01:45 AM) [snapback]1091324[/snapback]
only us Humans and other Earth lifeforms require water. .......we really dont know schit when it comes to other lifeforms.
look at roaches for example, they can survive in extreme cold and extreme radiation.
so who's to say that lifeforms in other parts of the system under extreme cold/extreme radiation conditions would be impossible?
Define extreme cold! Even if Titan is warmer than thought it is still -178°C (-289°F) at the surface.
Life requires some complex chemistry. The only type of chemistry which produces the complexity for life is carbon based (organic chemistry). That chemistry simply cannot occur at the temperatures found on Titan. Life just can not occur there. On top of this water has some fairly unique properties. It is highly unlikely that life could occur without it.
The conditions you describe as being extreme conditions that a roach can survive at are nothing of the sort. They maybe extreme by earth standards but they are positively mild by the the standards of the rest of the solar system.
Chemistry is the same every where in the universe. We can, therefore, have a very idea of what life non other planets would require.