Is This the Century of Biology?

Life as we know it is carbon based, and some very clever science fiction writers think about maybe a silican alternative to carbon. But then we're exploring that in terms of the environment in which we find ourselves. Maybe under other environmental conditions, it wouldn't be disfavored, and you could find silican bast or some other way of making life. That's what's so exciting about this century. I would be really excited to be a young scientist in these times with the opportunity to go looking for life beyond earth,. physically in reality, with rovers and possibly even people within our own solar system. And then all these spectacular telescopes that we're building in the coming decade, on