Facebook
Twitter
Home 
How Blumble Works 
Search Algorithm 
Your Privacy 
About 
Blog
Silicon based life forms
Silicon-based bio- dependent environments go in two directions: extremely hot, and extremely cold. The rest of the conditions are nothing special: organisms can withstand a substantially cataclysmic, noxious environment, as long as there is an energy gradient rather than a mere high energy. High temperature based silicon-based bio In 1891, German chemist Julius Scheiner described the possibility of silicon-based life. In 1893, British chemist James Emerson Reynolds mentioned in his opening speech to the British Association for the Advancement of...
Trends
But not all is lost for the possibility of silicon-based life. On an extreme world like Titan, there is no oxygen in the atmosphere and all water is frozen solid, so silicon is not oxidized right ...
- Safe
- United States
- Encrypted
- 28 yrs old
- 1,183 Site Rank
- Report Card
- Site Info
- Domain Check
- Site Overview
Silicon-Based Life, That Staple of Science Fiction, May Not Be Likely After All Silicon could still be important for the beginning and end of organic life, however.
- Safe
- United States
- Encrypted
- 28 yrs old
- 1,183 Site Rank
- Report Card
- Site Info
- Domain Check
- Site Overview
Comparison of four (sulfur, boron, silicon and carbon) scaffolding elements and their pros and cons as main building blocks of biochemistry. Sulfur (e.g., amphiphilic polythionates []) forms chains with itself, and in an alternation with carbon,...
- Safe
- Encrypted
Silicon-based life is perhaps the most common form of alternate biochemistry explored in popular science fiction, most notably in the case of the Horta from Star Trek.The concept is an old one, dating back to speculations by H.G. Wells in 1894:...
- Safe
- United States
- Encrypted
- 18 yrs old
- 7,316 Site Rank
- Report Card
- Site Info
- Domain Check
- Site Overview
Our February 2016 edition of the environmental SCIENTIST Growing in space: Science beyond the biosphere sparked our members' interest. On a related issue, we recently received a question which we thought was worth exploring in more detail:...
- Safe
- Ireland
- Encrypted
- 11 yrs old
- 989,689 Site Rank
- Report Card
- Site Info
- Domain Check
- Site Overview
Science fiction has long imagined alien worlds inhabited by silicon-based life, such as the rock-eating Horta from the original Star Trek series.Now, scientists have for the first time shown that ...
- Safe
- United States
- Encrypted
- 28 yrs old
- 347 Site Rank
- Report Card
- Site Info
- Domain Check
- Site Overview
The possibility of an alien life form with a silicon-based biochemistry is occasionally invoked by science-fiction writers and exobiologists as an alternative to the carbon-based organisms we are ...
- Safe
- United States
- Encrypted
- 19 yrs old
- 1,447 Site Rank
- Report Card
- Site Info
- Domain Check
- Site Overview
For life on Earth, carbon is king. All organisms build their cells from carbon-based molecules. Scientists and science fiction authors have long speculated that because silicon atoms bond to other atoms in a manner similar to carbon, silicon could form...
- Safe
- Encrypted
In the vast cosmic arena, life as we know it has flourished primarily based on carbon-based biochemistry. Yet, the universe is filled with elements and compounds that might give rise to alternative forms of life. One of the most intriguing possibilities...
- Safe
- Encrypted
WEBSITE REPORT CARD
-
![]()
Norton safe Web
-
McAfee Web Advisor
-
Site is
-
Hosted in
-
-
Traffic rank:
-
Site age:
-
Site Owner information
Norton safe Web