What Silicon-Based Life Might Be Like

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."

Easy

[ericloewe]

A large clump of silicon that lays eggs and produces and extremely corrosive acid to chew through rock.

Caps Lock Elevates Accessibility

[papar]

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?

[TeknoHog]

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

Where will the anus be?

[Anonymous Coward]

Just wondering.

Re:Easy

[3vi1]

I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!

silicon based religions

[allo]

will believe the universe only exists since 1.1.1970.

Re:silicon based religions

[Snard]

If there is no Silicon Heaven, then where do all the calculators go?