{"id":156484,"date":"2023-01-28T09:24:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T15:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/what-if-alien-life-were-silicon-based"},"modified":"2023-01-28T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T15:24:42","slug":"what-if-alien-life-were-silicon-based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/what-if-alien-life-were-silicon-based","title":{"rendered":"What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/469chceiiUQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Brilliant for Supporting PBS. To learn more go to <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/SpaceTime\/\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/SpaceTime\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE\">http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Life as we know it is carbon-based, but does it have to be this way? There\u2019s another element on the periodic table that shares some of the key properties of carbon but is far more abundant on most planets. I\u2019m talking about silicon. So is there silicon-based life out there?<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Space Time Merch Store.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop\">https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements!<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/what-if-alien-life-were-silicon-based\">Continue reading \u201cWhat If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to Brilliant for Supporting PBS. To learn more go to https:\/\/brilliant.org\/SpaceTime\/ PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime. Life as we know it is carbon-based, but does it have to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}