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To: cripplecreek
Just because life on earth is carbon based doesn't mean life elswhere can't be copper or helium based.

Copper doesn't form large molecules. Helium is inert, doesn't bond with anything.

Sulfur and silicon, maybe...

10 posted on 05/08/2004 7:32:29 AM PDT by null and void (Amber Alert! Tag line missing...)
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To: null and void
Coal people ?
14 posted on 05/08/2004 7:37:18 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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Amazing how NASA scientists may be finally catching up with Robert Heinlein.
35 posted on 05/08/2004 8:35:41 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk
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Sulfur and silicon, maybe...

Something tells me that sulfur or silicon based life forms wouldn't taste very good.

55 posted on 05/08/2004 9:58:11 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Any day you wake up is a good day.)
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To: null and void
Sulfer-based life? Imagine the BO a Sulferite would give off. Come to think of it, there's some bums who hang around the liquor store near my house that just might be sulfer-based life.
62 posted on 05/08/2004 10:45:05 AM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: null and void
And for some reason I'm thinking lithium or magnesium..
*shaking head*
Moving lichen like creatures that explode in the rain!
73 posted on 05/08/2004 4:48:42 PM PDT by Darksheare (You've heard of clothes moths, right? Well, it seems DU'ers have head moths eating their minds away.)
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To: null and void; cripplecreek; bannie
Copper doesn't form large molecules. Helium is inert, doesn't bond with anything.

Ta!

Sulfur and silicon, maybe...

Sulfur? Too reactive, wouldn't you say?
81 posted on 05/09/2004 8:08:55 AM PDT by Cronos (W2K4)
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