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booger, take your psudoscience to another thread, this discussion is for people with more than an ounce of grey matter.
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The best argument I ever heard for why carbon life is extremely extremely more likely than silicon doesn't have to do with silicon's inflexiblity with bonding compared to carbon or that silicon products tend to be insoluble solids while carbon can form gases and soluble compounds. No no, none of those. The best argument I ever heard for carbon based life is that silicon outnumbers carbon 500:1 in terms of abundance on Earth and life is still based around carbon chemistry.Originally posted by booger
Of course who ever said life had to be made of carbon anyway? Silicon (Sand) and methane (brick ****ters)based life-forms are a real possibility. Water isnt a neccessity
Now, we don't know that silicon life is entirely impossible but where there is carbon, and carbon is pretty much everywhere, it will be vastly prefered over silicon.
And methane based life is just another way of saying carbon based life. Methane is CH4 and is a common byproduct of carbon metablism in bacteria.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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