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Re: OT: Silicon-Carbon Lifeforms... For Realsies?

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nuny@bid.nes <Alien8752@gmail.com> wrote:
>  For some time chemists have been making materials that incorporate
> silicon-carbon bonds not often found in nature and never in lifeforms.
>
>  Now, some Smart Guys have "artificially evolved" some enzymes to do
> it even better, faster, and cheaper:
>
> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161124151217.htm
>
>  The process works at room temp, in water. One mentioned "Nature could
> have done this herself if she cared to."
>
>  So, how long until some complete idiot incorporates this idea into a
> microorganism (like yeast) to mass-produce S-C materials and it gets
> loose and displaces all mere carbon-based life?
>
>  For that matter, maybe this is another kind of life we should be on
> the lookout for on other worlds.
>
>  I don't recall any SF using this idea, but it should have.

The Smart Guys compete to eliminate all of Earth's biological domains
and thereby earn the first and only Supreme Darwin Award. :0) Shades of
"Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" (Joy) [1] and "The Catalyst" (Yohe) [2].

Note.

1. https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/
2. http://www.mpietrangelo.com/hbio/unit/2_biochemistry/The%2520Catalyst.pdf

Thank you,

--
Don Kuenz KB7RPU

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever
did move. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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OT: Silicon-Carbon Lifeforms... For Realsies? "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-11-26 11:38 -0800
  Re: OT: Silicon-Carbon Lifeforms... For Realsies? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-11-26 12:28 -0800
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  Re: OT: Silicon-Carbon Lifeforms... For Realsies? Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> - 2016-11-28 05:43 +0000

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