Silicon has similar valency as the basis of our life, Carbon and thus has been suggested to be a possible candidate for a basis of extra-terrestrial life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon#Silicon-based_life The question is: what needs to be the environment to favor the silicon based life? temp and pressure-wise? Since silicon does not form double bonds or triple bonds as readily as carbon does...nor does it make long chains as poly-carbon molecules...what will favor the formation of these chains? Why look for life? When we can seed one's ourselves. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! ---life of silicon---of crystals
And you're posting this in this section instead of in the Biology and Exobiology sections because...?
umm...too lazy to go scroll down...it requires too much energy to scroll down for my carbon-based life expenditures of life.