recap a little story, we find ourselves on a planet orbiting a sun belongs to a distant galaxy , we call this planet "Flint-1." In Flint-1 does not exist an environment as green as in earth, life has been generated here has managed to work with poor and exotic chemistry. In fact, there is little liquid water, this is concentrated in small ponds that evaporate rapidly due to the intense heat of this desert rough and dry. For this desert arachnids constantly migrate in search of food. These beings have a leisurely walk due to a slow metabolism and a thick exoskeleton of minerals based on silicon chemistry (remember that in Flint-1 carbon was not the major building block of life).
In Flint-1 is an atmosphere with a small concentration of oxygen, which has formed oceans of silicone (a polymer stable silicon) which extend over large areas. In these oceans, with a consistency similar to gel water, living creatures that have adapted to these physicochemical characteristics of the medium, which sometimes fall prey to the spiders on the coasts, but the diet of spiders is based more on humans similar to plants of our planet earth. Flint-1 exist in beings called "crystals" as far look similar to quartz, which is a mineral based on silicon dioxide or silica (SiO2):
The crystals have a much more complicated due to the fact that as the sand spiders breathe , they must "breathe." That is why the crystals have acquired the ability to be moderately mobile to find nearby SiO2 also have the characteristic of being very colonial, where large groups are similar to a coral reef in the desert of Flint-1.
The crystals have had to find ways to defend themselves against predation by spiders, which is why many have extremely rigid structures, as well as various toxins that cross the structure. On the other hand, the spiders have evolved over time powerful jaws and a tuned immune system, the result of natural selection, which has been responsible for this war arms between the powerful representatives of Flint-1.
Humans have not yet been able to come to this planet, because of an unimaginable distance to our mind. However, several probes have made explorations, by which we know these superficial aspects of life on this strange planet.
Unfortunately, it appears that in these corners of the universe still no intelligent life emerges. After several failed attempts at communication, the answer is always a profound silence. It appears that silicon is not a good brick for a brain powerful, but not so, for an exciting life.
hope you liked this true work of science fiction, I am sorry to disappoint but I told them this would be more art than science, because, as concluded in the previous trial, finding life based on silicon chemistry is practically nil, even there are "biomolecules" silicon. But never mind, the imagination must be a fundamental aspect of science. I hope this brief tour of Flint-1 is at the height of the "floaters" of Jupiter by Carl Sagan.
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