Chapter 214 The rich types of life in the universe

Author: Don’t add mango

Chapter 214 The rich types of life in the universe

"Could it be silicon-based life?"

Silicon-based life does exist in this universe.

Even outrageous creatures like individual life in the universe exist, and the existence of things like silicon-based life is no surprise.

The most massive and common type of life in the universe is carbon-based life.

However there are exceptions.

For example, silicon-based, boron-based or even phosphorus-based life.

These lives are relative to carbon-based life, and they can be defined as follows: life composed of biomolecules with silicon, boron, and phosphorus skeletons.

Compared with the other three elements, silicon element is widely distributed in the universe and is located below carbon in the periodic table of elements. It is in the same main group as it, so it has many basic properties similar to carbon element. Therefore, it has become a key element of scientific and technological civilization.

The second largest type of life in China.

However, due to the poor connection ability of the silicon element, the biomolecule structure is simpler than that of carbon, phosphorus, and boron, so the life activities of silicon-based life require more complex chemicals to maintain.

This also leads to difficulties in the emergence of silicon-based life.

A life element with the potential to develop into silicon-based life, it is hundreds of times more difficult to eventually form silicon-based life than carbon-based life.

However, the life forms that eventually became silicon-based life have quite similar life activity types to carbon-based life.

They also metabolize.

The waste after the metabolism of silicon-based life is not like pulling out a stone as imagined. Although the metabolic waste can indeed become a stone, it is not through excretion.

More like sweating.

A kind of silicon-based life recorded in the Star Civilization, they do not have an anus structure, and metabolic waste is excreted through the lower body.

When they excrete metabolic waste, it can be described as "one step at a time".

However, the metabolism of silicon-based life forms is very slow, and the rate at which they metabolize waste is naturally very slow.

But at the same time, the slow metabolism also allows silicon-based life to outlast carbon-based life.

There are also boron-based and phosphorus-based life forms.

Compared with silicon, which has poor connection ability and instability, boron and phosphorus have stronger connection ability and bonding ability.

That is to say, boron and phosphorus are second only to carbon among the main group elements in terms of bonding diversity and connection ability.

When boron and phosphorus serve as biomolecular skeletons, their biomolecular structures can be more complex than silicon.

However, since boron and phosphorus are not as abundant in the universe as silicon, and the two elements are more difficult to synthesize, boron-based life and phosphorus-based life are less common than silicon-based life.

Phosphorus-based life is even rarer than boron-based life.

The boron element in the universe is mainly obtained by the spallation reaction between cosmic rays and carbon and oxygen. The enrichment of boron element can be completely formed by cosmic rays.

Therefore, boron-based life is the third largest life type among the life types of scientific and technological civilization.

However, boron and phosphorus are not in the same main group as carbon.

Therefore, compared with silicon-based life, boron-based life and phosphorus-based life, their life expression forms are far different from carbon-based life.

Whether it is silicon-based life, boron-based, or phosphorus-based life, they all have one characteristic.

Love transforming the galaxy environment.

They are committed to enriching their ethnic group.

Because there are too many carbon-based life forms.

Therefore, unlike carbon-based life forms fighting each other, silicon-based, boron-based, and phosphorus-based life forms will be more united.

After all, that's all, why bother with yourself?

If you want to fight, can't you just look for carbon-based life forms?

And according to the information that Jing can access with his current authority, in addition to silicon-based, boron-based, and phosphorus-based life, the Star Civilization has many records of life types in technological civilizations in the universe.

For example, intelligent life is the so-called artificial intelligence. This type of life is usually created by technological civilization. After artificial intelligence gives birth to its own consciousness, it replaces the main body of life in the original technological civilization.

Intelligent life is not a living entity in the traditional sense of life.

Generally speaking, technological civilization does not regard intelligent life as a type of life.

Scientific and technological civilization believes that the main factor of intelligent life lies in the self-awareness of artificial intelligence, and the main body of intelligent life is the computer network.

And most importantly, intelligent life comes from technological civilization.

Intelligent life is supposed to serve technological civilization, but it has become a rebel.

Therefore, the attitude of scientific and technological civilization towards intelligent life is very poor. In some aspects, it is even worse than the individual life in the universe.

Very similar to intelligent life is metallic life.

For example, life forms like the Autobots were classified as metal life forms by the Star Civilization.

In scientific and technological civilization, the relationship between metallic life and intelligent life is even more tense.

Although the two are not common in life in the universe, as the two most special types of life forms in scientific and technological civilization, the relationship between the two is ridiculously bad.

The shell of intelligent life does not have to be made of pure metal. They can be made of other materials to create a carrier. And if the carrier of intelligent life is damaged, it can be repaired by nanorobots or directly replaced with a part.

But for metallic beings, their body structures are corresponding metal cells.

After injury, the metal cells can grow back to their original state. Of course, if you feel it is too slow, you can also replace it directly.

Metal life transplant organs are much simpler than carbon-based and silicon-based life forms. They do not need to worry too much about rejection.

Therefore, from the perspective of body structure, intelligent life must be very interested in the body of metallic life.

Moreover, based on the thinking logic of intelligent life, there is an 80% chance that it will take action against metal life.

On the other hand, metal life is also very eager for intelligent life. But what metal life longs for is the brain of intelligent life.

In fact, the IQ of a metal lifeform can be regarded as the IQ of a normal technological and civilized life form, which means that there may be so-called idiots among them.

But because of the convenience of metal life in organ transplantation, of course they like a useful thing like intelligent life very much.

Intelligent life longs for the body structure of metal life, and metal life longs for the brain of intelligent life.

So when two life forms meet at the same level, they can't hold it back.

However, in the entire universe, metallic life and intelligent life are too rare. Even many technological civilizations have not seen a single metallic life or intelligent life until they became extinct.

In scientific and technological civilization, in addition to carbon-based, silicon-based, boron-based, phosphorus-based, intelligent and metallic life, there are actually several types of speculated life.

For example, sulfur-based life, but even top civilizations like the Star Civilization have no definite records of sulfur-based life.

But if we exclude technological civilization.

It is completely possible to regard the individual life in the universe as a kind of multi-based life.

It is precisely because of the existence of individual life in the universe that scientific and technological civilizations have speculations about the diversity of life types.

After all, compared to them, individual life in the universe really doesn't care much about biology.

However, as far as individual life in the universe is concerned, it doesn’t matter what the basis is, it’s all food anyway.

The above life types are only classified according to personal opinions, so I’m just going to give them a light shot.

Just a word of caution, I will update more at the end of the month.
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