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#394 - Carl Zimmer - What Are The Weirdest Types Of Life?
Modern Wisdom
Is Silica Life Possible?
There is a small, but really fastenating little thre of scientific research that goes back a a hundred years. Life on earth is very similar because there's just one way to do it. The rules of matter and energy don't allow anything else. There could be ways of using silicon or some other materials, essentially to work as genes. Some scientist are saying, well, who cares? Let's start trying to build the systems in their laps.
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