A Quote by Paul MacCready
The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.
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People are really interested in these fundamental questions: Why is life based on carbon and not silicon?
Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
Silicon-based life on Earth doesn't make sense, but perhaps it would in some totally different environment.
Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.
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I'm going to have a project-based life rather than a job-based life.
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.
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You're not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You're going to advance in life by what you're going to learn after you leave here.
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I mean, we all carry some form of that bias, right? I mean, it might be based on age, it might be based on gender, it might be based on sexuality, and it's certainly based on race.
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Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth can’t even exist without carbon dioxide. So necessary is it to human life, to animal life, to plant life, to the oceans, to the vegetation that’s on the Earth, to the, to the fowl that - that flies in the air, we need to have carbon dioxide as part of the fundamental lifecycle of Earth.
We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative to carbon-based fuel. That's the #1 problem.
What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense be alive? What about an interstellar cloud? Could life exist on such a small or large scale, or move so fast or so slowly that we wouldn't recognize it? Could you have an intelligent virus?
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