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1. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 06-Mar-2016 07:19:28 EST MMN-o ✅⃠

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   • Bob Mottram
   *drums up the hope to find silicon based life forms*
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 06-Mar-2016 07:46:59 EST MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • monsutaa kaado!
     @mushi Obviously carbon had a better chance here on Earth, but I don't think we should rule out the possibility that under other circumstances that molecular evolution could find its ways to build reproducible silicon based protein-like structures (or whatever the first stages of life would have to be for them).
     
     Don't be a carbon chauvinist!
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 06-Mar-2016 07:49:59 EST MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • monsutaa kaado!
     @mushi But ok, apparently a better choice would be a cold planet according to Wikipedia: "So, any environment with the potential for silicon-based life would have to be very cold and devoid of oxygen and water".
     Article briefly discussing it: https://astrowright.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/target-titan/
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 06-Mar-2016 08:12:47 EST MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • monsutaa kaado!
     @mushi And that's why we should keep looking for such really weird worlds (albeit still within the reasonable limits of sustaining life as we already know it)!
     https://primatemind.info/notice/12190