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What Silicon-Based Life Might Be Like

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 4, 2011 @12:02AM from the would-want-totally-different-cable-channels dept.

Nancy_A writes "While the world as we know it runs on carbon, science fiction's long flirtation with silicon-based life has spawned a familiar catchphrase: 'It's life, but not as we know it.' Although non-carbon based life is a very long shot, this Q&A with one of the U.S.'s top astrochemists — Max Bernstein, the Research Lead of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington,D.C. — discusses what silicon life might be like."

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Easy by ericloewe · 2011-12-04 00:03 · Score: 5, Funny

A large clump of silicon that lays eggs and produces and extremely corrosive acid to chew through rock.
1. Re:Easy by 3vi1 · 2011-12-04 01:36 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!
Caps Lock Elevates Accessibility by papar · 2011-12-04 00:21 · Score: 5, Funny

I love it how Dorminey IS CONSTANTLY YELLING HIS QUESTIONS AT BERNSTEIN. Oh good God I can't even get this post past Slashdots caps filters!
Mammals? by TeknoHog · 2011-12-04 00:50 · Score: 5, Funny

They better be mammals, otherwise all those nice silicon-based polymers are udderly wasted.

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Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Where will the anus be? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-12-04 01:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Just wondering.
silicon based religions by allo · 2011-12-04 01:43 · Score: 5, Funny

will believe the universe only exists since 1.1.1970.
1. Re:silicon based religions by Snard · 2011-12-04 01:57 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  If there is no Silicon Heaven, then where do all the calculators go?
  
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  - Mike