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Originally Posted by benhogan
I'm not a biologist but it seems to me that rust should be considered a living thing. I respirates. It eats. It reproduces. Wouldn't it make it a living thing?
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So do politicians but they are not-- oh wait-- I was thinking of intelligent life...

Rust is a chemical reaction which does not require life to take place.
It involves unbonded iron atoms and un bonded oxygehn atoms.
You know what happens when unbonded atoms get together, if one is + and the other is -