"Could it be silicon-based life?"

Silicon-based life does exist in this universe.

Even such outrageous creatures as individual life in the universe exist, and the existence of such a thing as silicon-based life is not surprising.

The largest and most common type of life in the universe is carbon-based life.

However, there are exceptions.

For example, silicon-based, boron-based, and even phosphorus-based life.

These lives are relative to carbon-based life, and they can be defined as life made up of biomolecules with a backbone of silicon, boron, and phosphorus.

Compared with the other three elements, silicon is similar to many of the basic properties of carbon because it is widely distributed in the universe and is located below carbon in the periodic table, and is in the same main group as it. As a result, it has become the second most common type of life in technological civilization.

However, due to the poor connection ability of silicon, the structure of biomolecules is simpler than that of carbon, phosphorus, and boron, so the life activities of silicon-based life require more complex chemicals to maintain.

This also leads to difficulties in the emergence of silicon-based life.

A life element that has the potential to develop into silicon-based life is hundreds of times more difficult to form than carbon-based life.

However, the life forms that eventually become silicon-based life forms are quite similar to carbon-based life forms.

They also metabolize.

And the waste after the metabolism of silicon-based life is not a stone as imagined, although metabolic waste can indeed become a stone, but not through excretion.

It's more like sweating.

A silicon-based life recorded in the asterisk civilization, they do not have an anus structure, and metabolic waste is excreted through the lower body.

When they expel metabolic waste, it can be described as "one step at a time".

However, silicon-based life forms are very slow to metabolize, and they naturally metabolize waste products very slowly.

But at the same time, the slow metabolic rate also allows silicon-based life to outlive carbon-based life.

Then there is boron-based and phosphorus-based life.

In addition to the poor and unstable bonding ability of silicon, boron and phosphorus have stronger bonding ability and bonding ability.

That is to say, boron and phosphorus are second only to carbon in the main group of elements in terms of bonding diversity and connection ability.

When boron and phosphorus are used as biomolecular backbones, their biomolecular structures can be more complex than those of silicon.

However, because boron and phosphorus are not as abundant in the universe as silicon, and the two elements are more difficult to synthesize, there are fewer boron-based and phosphorus-based life than silicon-based life.

Phosphorus-based life, on the other hand, is less common than boron-based life.

Boron in the universe is mainly obtained by the spallation reaction of cosmic rays with carbon and oxygen, and the enrichment of boron can be formed by cosmic rays.

Therefore, boron-based life is the third largest type of life among the life types of scientific and technological civilization.

However, boron and phosphorus are not in the same main group as carbon.

Therefore, compared with silicon-based life, boron-based life and phosphorus-based life have a ridiculous difference between their life manifestations and carbon-based life.

Whether it is silicon-based life, boron-based or phosphorus-based life, they all have one characteristic.

Passionate about modifying galactic environments.

They are committed to enriching their community.

Because there are so many carbon-based life.

Therefore, unlike carbon-based life, silicon-based, boron-based, and phosphorus-based life will show more unity among each other.

After all, that's it, why should you and your own internal friction?

If you want to fight, why don't you just find carbon-based life?

And according to the information that can be consulted by Jing's existing authority, in addition to silicon-based, boron-based, and phosphorus-based life, there are many records of the life types of scientific and technological civilizations in the universe by the asterisk civilization.

For example, intelligent life, also known as artificial intelligence. This type of life is usually created by technological civilizations, and after artificial intelligence gives birth to its own consciousness, it replaces the original life subjects in technological civilizations.

Intelligent life is not a living form in the traditional sense of life.

Generally speaking, technological civilization does not see intelligent life as a type of life.

Scientific and technological civilization believes that the main factor of intelligent life lies in the self-consciousness of artificial intelligence, and the main body of intelligent life is the computer network.

And most importantly, intelligent life comes from scientific and technological civilization.

Intelligent life is supposed to serve scientific and technological civilization, but it has become an anti-bone boy.

Therefore, the attitude of scientific and technological civilization towards intelligent life is very poor, and in some respects, it is even worse than individual life in the universe.

Much like intelligent life is metal life.

For example, the Autobots were classified into metal lives by the asterisk civilization.

In the scientific and technological civilization, the relationship between metal life and intelligent life is more tense.

Although the two are not common in life in the universe, as the two most special types of life forms in scientific and technological civilization, the relationship between the two is ridiculously poor.

The shell of intelligent life does not have to be made of pure metal, they can be made of other materials. Moreover, if the carrier of intelligent life receives trauma, it can be repaired by nanorobots, or it can be directly replaced with a part.

But metal life, their body structure is the corresponding metal cell.

After injury, the metal cells can grow and return to their original state, of course, if you feel that it is too slow, you can also directly replace it.

Metal life transplant organs are still much simpler than carbon-based and silicon-based life. They don't need to think too much about exclusivity.

Therefore, from the perspective of body structure, intelligent life must be very interested in the body of metal life.

And with the thinking logic of intelligent life, there is an 80% chance that it will do it to metal life.

Conversely, metal life is also very hungry for intelligent life. But what metal life craves is the brains of intelligent life.

In fact, the IQ of a metal life can be regarded as the IQ of a normal scientific and technological civilization life, which means that there may be so-called fools among them.

However, due to the convenience of metal life in organ transplantation, they certainly like the useful thing of an intelligent life.

Intelligent life longs for the body structure of metal life, and metal life longs for the brain of intelligent life.

So when two life forms meet at the same level, it's a little unbearable.

However, in the entire universe, metal life and intelligent life are too rare, and even many technological civilizations have never seen a single metal life or intelligent life until they are extinct.

In scientific and technological civilization, in addition to carbon-based, silicon-based, boron-based, phosphorus-based, intelligent and metallic life, there are actually several speculative life.

For example, sulfur-based, but even a top-level civilization like the Asterisk Civilization has no exact record of sulfur-based life.

But if you exclude technological civilization.

It is entirely possible to think of individual life in the universe as a multi-base life.

It is precisely because of the existence of individual life in the universe that scientific and technological civilization has speculation about the diversity of life types.

After all, compared to them, individual life in the universe is too biological.

However, for individual life in the universe, it doesn't matter what the base is, it's all food anyway.

The above life types are classified only according to personal opinions, lightly sprayed.

Whisper, and add more at the end of the month.

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