Cosmic Queries – Silicon Aliens with David Grinspoon
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Silicon Bonds, You Know?
Silicon bonds tend to be really stiff and, you know, they don't make those complex configurations the way carbon bonds do. So that's less flexible when life is experimenting on the diversity of what it may need to thrive in an environment. I would add just from an astrophysical point of view, there's like five times as much carbon in the universe as there is silicon. You don't even need to appeal to silicon because carbon is there for you and it's your friend.
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