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[Remuthra]

What did we make the life based on? Boron or carbon?

Carbon. I've never heard of Boron as a viable candidate for life. I know zilch about what life made of Boron would have to act like different from Carbon-based life.

And Silcate life would die. So Carbon.

Just to note, Silicate is something completely different than Silicon. Silicate is made up of silicon and oxygen.

[Descan]

I just wanna say why would Silicon life necessarily be slow and hard? Carbon-based life is squishy but all (I think?) other carbon forms we know of are either combustible (coal) or hard-as-fuck (diamond).

Just saying.

Of course, if silicon life is squishy too, what's the point in doing it? It wouldn't change anything.

... This is just a long way to say PTW.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Silicon-based life has two big advantages over carbon-based that you're ignoring.

1. Sand and other sediments contain lots of silicon. Terravores wouldn't be entirely ridiculous.
2. It's cool to be different.

[Remuthra]

Can we still create life? I don't think it said anywhere we couldn't.

[miauw62]

Let's just go with what we know: Carbon.

[Aseaheru]

WE HAVE LIFE.
lets keep it alive, shall we?

[alamoes]

HAH!  Let us play with some chemicals.  Some chemical has to make it divide so we have more to work with.   We should find out what element it is made from first, if it is boring old carbon, or something interesting, like iron based life.  Let us first test how it will react with its natural surroundings.  We should spawn a molecule of DeoxyriboNucleic Acid of random genes.  Actually we should probably let our cell roam before the beginning of our meddlings with life. 

[Tsuchigumo550]

Give our little critter some NaCl.

[Rolepgeek]

Screw silicon based, make lead based. Or better and weirder; argon based.

[Remuthra]

But that's physically imposs-
Bay 12 Rejects Your Conventional Logic!

[Nosaneinme]

But that's physically imposs-
Bay 12 Rejects Your Conventional Logic!

How do know yet,You Human never Get off this Rock yet so and There A lot thing about matter yet do not unterstand

[GreatWyrmGold]

We do, however, understand chemistry pretty well. And if elements don't work the same in space as they do on Earth, might as well throw everything out.

[Nosaneinme]

We do, however, understand chemistry pretty well. And if elements don't work the same in space as they do on Earth, might as well throw everything out.

Do know all human knowledge about universe you get number like this 0.0000000001 and What know Matter is that Reaction and Bonding and Small is Bigger also this,My Father Explain me this long time ago

[Tsuchigumo550]

Laws are still laws. Most of our knowledge of chemistry is lawful, meaning that, unless we start finding areas of the universe that break basic law, such as other dimensions, then we get no deviation. New elements would doubtfully create life due to their great size- stability and reactivity become problems- not to mention the amount of electrons required for that kind of thing. You'd be suprised at how much of the lower periodic table is man-made, and the still large amount of elements that simply refuse to exist for long in our world.

Not to be mean, but is English your first language? I don't want to be that guy who's an insensitive dick when explaining things. Even if we had workarounds, which are feasible depending on what theories you believe, they simply wouldn't work in a law-based game such as this.

[GreatWyrmGold]

We do, however, understand chemistry pretty well. And if elements don't work the same in space as they do on Earth, might as well throw everything out.

Do know all human knowledge about universe you get number like this 0.0000000001 and What know Matter is that Reaction and Bonding and Small is Bigger also this,My Father Explain me this long time ago

Guess what matters most for this particular problem?

Reaction and Bonding