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"The definition of life has just expanded"
ImRonBurgundy?:
d'awwwww
I wonder how this thing is going to be classified once they've officially scientifically described it and such.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: calenlass on 03 Dec 2010, 01:54 ---"wait, you mean all life ever isn't necessarily carbon based?!?!"
--- End quote ---
Unfortunately these aren't the silicon-based lifeforms you'll sometimes see in science fiction. Still, very amazing.
Nodaisho:
We have found a lot of those in California, though.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 03 Dec 2010, 03:59 ---Unfortunately these aren't the silicon-based lifeforms you'll sometimes see in science fiction. Still, very amazing.
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Silicon-based life only really works at temperatures and pressures radically different from the surface of the earth. It's conceivable such life could live deep down in the earths crust, but if it's weird enough we might have trouble even recognising it as life.
Lines:
This is awesome!
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