AgProv
Doctor of Disorientation Studies, UnseenUniversity
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Maybe it did. Look at all the folk-legends about trolls.I heard the theory that silicon forms 4 bonds like carbon.
Why did life go with carbon instead of silicon ?
We could be transparent beings with silicon.
Then in the original 1951 movie “ The Thing “ the scientists were doing battle with an alien who was vegetable which was described as a dangerous carrot.
Supposedly, Warner von Braun decided the crashed Roswell UFO as a vegetable that was alive and its occupants would mentally become one with the UFO as the UFO lacked mechanical dials.
But my opinion is that planet earth having all the parameters is very rare.
But if you not afraid to go down the “ rabbit hole “ there are other dimensions and there are more than one universe.
Also, Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" sets out a nicely-argued rationale for trolls as a silicon-based lifeform: it's just that as silicon sets out its own list of limiting factors compared to carbon, there'd be less of them, they'd grow more slowly, reproduce more infrequently and find themselves gradually crowded out by faster-moving carbon-based life.
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