Why silicon-based aliens would rather eat our cities than us: Thoughts on non-carbon astrobiology

Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 10:01 in Astronomy & Space

Conventional wisdom has long had it that carbon-based life, so common here on earth, must surely be abundant elsewhere; both in our galaxy and the universe as a whole.

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