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What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?

PBS Space Time

What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?

PBS Space Time considers whether life could be based on silicon instead of carbon, comparing the two elements' chemistry and why silicon is the most plausible alternative.

Recommended as a solid, informative treatment of silicon-based life and the chemical limits on alien biochemistry.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2023–2025

Topics

  • Chemistry
  • Cosmology & astrophysics
  • Biology & biotechnology

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