>Silicon life /did/ work here - according to
>A. G. Cairns-Smith in his numerous books on the subject:
>
>  http://originoflife.net/cairns_smith/
>
>As to why life started using carbon atoms - as well as silicon ones -
>that subject has also been pretty well covered.
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> |im |yler  http://timtyler.org/  tim{at}tt1lock.org  Remove lock to reply.

Tim Tyler, I'm still very very skeptical
but, I do have some questions
concerning clays:

>From "Who Goes There' I have these quotes

"They also found that one kind of clay, that which contains nickel, attracts
exactly those 20 amino acids found in living things on earth....

Do you have any follow up on this point?

And this one:

"One clay which contains zinc concentrated the nucleotides that make up DNA.
Significantly zinc is known to play an imortant role in an enzyme called DNA
polymerase, .... which links nucleotides to form large DNA molecules.

Any update on this aspect of clay?

Tom
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