Re: Why Early?

From: Tim Tyler (tim_at_tt1lock.org)
Date: 09/25/04

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    TomHendricks474 <tomhendricks474@cs.com> wrote or quoted:

    > Oh and on a side note: Some talk of silicon life
    > as a possibility - with silicon replacing carbon.
    > Yet the earth has more silicon than carbon -
    > (when it combines with oxygen we get the basic
    > ingredient of sand silicon dioxide).
    > If it could work, it should have worked here as
    > well as anywhere else. And silicon life did not
    > work on earth - carbon life did.

    Silicon life /did/ work here - according to
    A. G. Cairns-Smith in his numerous books on the subject:

      http://originoflife.net/cairns_smith/

    As to why life started using carbon atoms - as well as silicon ones -
    that subject has also been pretty well covered. 

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