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I'm not an expert on biology, but is it possible for a complex life form like the breen to exist without blood?
That depends on all sorts of factors, ranging from the average temperature of their world, to their diet, to their enviroment, to the composition of said blood, etc, etc, etc. Really, we have nothing to go on here.
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well, some believe in the possibility of silicon based lifeforms, would a silicon based lifeform have blood?
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No idea. There's no silicone based life on Earth, so we can't really do anything but speculate. Personaly, I'm not too sure such life will ever exist at all, I think the closest would be a creature with a silicone shell or exoskeleton of some sort, whic would indeed have blood.
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my biology degree didn't swerve towards xenobiology, but if anyone ever fancies a good chat about moss.........lol
silicon based life,hmm the mind boggles
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Rochey wrote:No idea. There's no silicone based life on Earth, so we can't really do anything but speculate. Personaly, I'm not too sure such life will ever exist at all, I think the closest would be a creature with a silicone shell or exoskeleton of some sort, whic would indeed have blood.
I made a thread a long time ago asking what other kinds of life could exist besides Carbon and Silicon, I may bump that.

I think they found evidence of a silicon life form in a steam vent but they weren't sure what they got. But I might be thinking of a silicone life form at the playboy mansion.
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You wouldn't happen to have a link to something about that steam vent, would you? I'd be interested in learing more about that.
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No, it was on one of those crazy TV shows about aliens or something. It was 'evidence' and those shows usually over exaggerate what they find anyway.
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Ah, right. I tend not to put much stock in those shows, unless I see some actual credentials from the 'experts' they wheel out for them.
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Nor do I. Hence the disclaimer above. BUT, it would be cool.
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I remember hearing about that as well. They're these weird tube-shaped things that live at undersea thermal vents called "black smokers". Whatever they are, it's sure impressive that they can live in 400 degree C water.
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No, the tube things are a variety of worm. Very weird, but wholly organic.
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Yeah, I'm seeing now that they are classed as annelids. Maybe the story was about some other crap that lives down there, but I don't think there's any evidence of silicon-based life on earth, except maybe these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatom
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Sorry, dude, but diatoms are organic, too. They have silicate, rather than cellulose, cell walls - but they are organic algae.
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I know. I just find it interesting that they can incorporate silicon into their biology at all.
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I suppose - but is it any weirder than incorporating calcified internal structures?
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