Silicon based life

[BowlDawg]

Sounds neat!

Ya know, it seems like QuantumCrab, Biologicah and I seem pretty active compared to other users.

[Biologicah (Only occasionally interested in Thrive)]

@QuantumCrab

for respiration only

So we have both the end of the digestive tract and a sort of organ that covers the quartz in a coat of mucus, as well as a sort of exhaling tube for the quartz to exit the body from?

[BowlDawg]

So essentially it could end up going through large pores, or go through a nose or something.

[Biologicah (Only occasionally interested in Thrive)]

I was thinking a sort of second anus, serves the same purpose but waste comes out of it much more often.

[BowlDawg]

Why not connect the seperate tubes into one intersection for more safety, i suppose?

[QuantumCrab]

So creatures would leave long trails of gooey sand along the planets surface, and have two butts.

Silicon based lifeforms sound awesome!

[Biologicah (Only occasionally interested in Thrive)]

There we have it, fellas.
Silicon-based life excretes mucus-coated sand through a separate anus-like structure.

Life is truly beautiful, sometimes in the strangest of ways.

[Askyw]

what the Belgium did I just read?

[jellyfishmon (ፕቿክፕልርረቿ ረዐዪዕ)]

[RoboRomb (Overlord of Organisms)]

Science can create so many amazing creatures. Lets hope we don’t see a bunch of creatures excreting mucus-coated sand through a second anal cavity in the future game.

Though they would be very interesting to research, albeit fun.

[BowlDawg]

In fact, would OTHER materials besides carbon and silicon be possible, albeit the right conditions?

[QuantumCrab]

I’m really not sure. You see, carbon and silicon are both very stable yet flexible chemicals, allowing for many different compounds and forms. I don’t know of any others that are the same…

[Omicron (He who abuses the search function)]

According to this wikipedia page:

• Various metals, together with oxygen, can form very complex and thermally stable structures rivaling those of organic compounds; the heteropoly acids are one such family. Some metal oxides are also similar to carbon in their ability to form both nanotube structures and diamond-like crystals (such as cubic zirconia). Titanium, aluminium, magnesium, and iron are all more abundant in the Earth’s crust than carbon. Metal-oxide-based life could therefore be a possibility under certain conditions, including those (such as high temperatures) at which carbon-based life would be unlikely. The Cronin group at Glasgow University reported self-assembly of tungsten polyoxometalates into cell-like spheres.[19] By modifying their metal oxide content, the spheres can acquire holes that act as porous membrane, selectively allowing chemicals in and out of the sphere according to size.[19]
• Sulfur is also able to form long-chain molecules, but suffers from the same high-reactivity problems as phosphorus and silanes. The biological use of sulfur as an alternative to carbon is purely hypothetical, especially because sulfur usually forms only linear chains rather than branched ones. (The biological use of sulfur as an electron acceptor is widespread and can be traced back 3.5 billion years on Earth, thus predating the use of molecular oxygen.[20] Sulfur-reducing bacteria can utilize elemental sulfur instead of oxygen, reducing sulfur to hydrogen sulfide.)

tl;dr: Yes, for example Titanium, aluminium, magnesium, iron and sulfur

[QuantumCrab]

As soon as you begin to break down what life is, its really just a whole lot of dead chemistry that can self-replicate. So there are a lot of possibilities when it comes to this…

[reeper66 (🔥😈🔥The Bored One🎮🕹💻)]

metal people? cool!

@Omicron

• Various metals, together with oxygen, can form very complex and thermally stable structures rivaling those of organic compounds; the heteropoly acids are one such family. Some metal oxides are also similar to carbon in their ability to form both nanotube structures and diamond-like crystals (such as cubic zirconia). Titanium, aluminium, magnesium, and iron are all more abundant in the Earth’s crust than carbon. Metal-oxide-based life could therefore be a possibility under certain conditions, including those (such as high temperatures) at which carbon-based life would be unlikely. The Cronin group at Glasgow University reported self-assembly of tungsten polyoxometalates into cell-like spheres.[19] By modifying their metal oxide content, the spheres can acquire holes that act as porous membrane, selectively allowing chemicals in and out of the sphere according to size.[19]
• Sulfur is also able to form long-chain molecules, but suffers from the same high-reactivity problems as phosphorus and silanes. The biological use of sulfur as an alternative to carbon is purely hypothetical, especially because sulfur usually forms only linear chains rather than branched ones. (The biological use of sulfur as an electron acceptor is widespread and can be traced back 3.5 billion years on Earth, thus predating the use of molecular oxygen.[20] Sulfur-reducing bacteria can utilize elemental sulfur instead of oxygen, reducing sulfur to hydrogen sulfide.)

[Steve]

Narrator: The Silicon Crab or Rock Lobster, as the locals are calling it, is an astonishing creature to watch as is crawls around leaving a trail of mucus covered quartz in it’s wake.

[Rednascar11 (Merlok keeper of the liberty top-hat)]

Or instead of having quartz diarrhea everytime you breath they have a second bladder type organ that holds the quartz and then it poops it out as quartz poop or diarrhea

[Rednascar11 (Merlok keeper of the liberty top-hat)]

What
I meant just pooping out the quartz out of a second anus

[QuantumCrab]

The parrot fish poops out sand every so often:

So perhaps aquatic silicon-based lifeforms would have an easier time

[KikyGames (The Collector Of Useless Information)]

That is how those white sand beaches are made.So ur playing in fish poop