Silicon Based Life

Gold based life
Sodium based life
Plutonium based life
Potassium based life

They'll be heavier, that's it. Also nothing stops Si life to use both Si and C.

>>7947547
>Gold based life
>Sodium based life
>Plutonium based life
>Potassium based life

Are those actually possible?

>They'll be heavier, that's it.

What about the lack of metabolism? The silicate they breathe out?

>>7947539
Doesn't metabolism (read oxidation) of silicium-organo-compounds produce siliciumoxide as an end product. I can imagine cells secreting carbondioxide, but not silicates.

>>7947547
Damn man, I wonder

What if aliums

wasn't there some story about aliens making us mine gold so they could seed their atmosphere with it or something
i know how retarded that sounds

silicon doesn't form long-chain compounds as easily
also, silicon compounds tend to have fairly similar phase diagrams, whereas carbon compounds are so variable and diverse that you can easily have them present in gas, liquid, and solid forms under the same temperature and pressure conditions, allowing for better exchange. (think CO2, petroleum, and calcium carbonate)

>>7947634

>silicon doesn't form long-chain compounds as easily

this could be chalked up to the larger radius and consequently longer bond lengths of silicon compounds, correct?

>>7947622
Couldn't they secrete it? Maybe into an exoskeleton?

>>7947635
not certain of the exact mechanics desu
my field is a geosci one, so I'm less concerned about why silicon does stuff and more concerned about what stuff it does.
could have something to do with the fact that silicon can expand the octet and carbon can't

>>7947641
there are organisms that make siliceous exoskeletons.
diatoms, most notably, but also some sponges. and there are plants such as triodia (spinifex grass) which concentrate silica in their leaf tips as a deterrent to grazing.

>>7947631
That was Chariots of the Gods.

>>7947649
Wouldn;t work to secrete from respiration. SiO2 is non-soluble

>>7947652
oh is it an annunaki thing, figures

Silicon atoms are complete shit.
Carbon is way better

I'm into life forms that are carbon based. Does that make me xenophobic?

>>7949730
no, it makes you a zoophile you sick fuck

Silicon is too heavy to create lifeforms like we'd know it.

Boron (preferably) or perhaps Nitrogen are the best alternatives to Carbon in forming complex chains.

Source: I'm a medfag.

>>7947539
would be pretty cool if our bones were made of calcium silicate instead of hydroxyapatite.

>>7951225
What community college are you from friend?

plenty of life on earth itself uses silica

>>7951245
Uses yes, but think of amino acids, etc. At the 19th best uni in the world friend