Cosmic Queries – Silicon Aliens with David Grinspoon
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Is There a Protocol for Life Discovery?
The elements are going to be the same, but your question is good. Are there conditions in which the reaction types, the behavior is going to be different? And the answer is yes, there are conditions in which it's different and that's why we have to be careful to not be too earth centric. But has anybody come up with a set of conditions that we're likely to find somewhere where you can show that silicon is going to do the right thing to make life? That may be just again be a limit on our imagination.
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