If some alien called me up [and said]., "Hello, this is Alpha, and we want to know what kind of life you have," — I'd say, waterbased... Earth organisms figure out how to make do without almost anything else. The single nonnegotiable thing life requires is water.


Interview, OMNI Magazine, July 1992 (p. 66)

Christopher McKay Quotes

If some alien called me up [and said]., Hello, this is Alpha, and we want to know what kind of life you have, — I'd say, waterbased... Earth...

If some alien called me up [and said]., Hello, this is Alpha, and we want to know what kind of life you have, — I'd say, waterbased... Earth...

If some alien called me up [and said]., Hello, this is Alpha, and we want to know what kind of life you have, — I'd say, waterbased... Earth...

If some alien called me up [and said]., Hello, this is Alpha, and we want to know what kind of life you have, — I'd say, waterbased... Earth...