Molecules cannot be something and something else at the same time.
Everything is impossible...until it becomes possible.
Isn't the simpler explanation to all this that its alien, therefore the normal rules of biology don't apply...?
That too!!!
wait you are saying science fiction is fiction?!?!?!?!?
I made a theory that thing is made of subcellular nanomacchines that imitate organic matter.
Life in general is impossible. But we believe it sprung up from nothing and came this far.