Few of us, however, think about how silicon-based life forms interact with one another.
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But in the future we might rely on life forms that have never before existed.
All life forms on earth use six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur.
Arabidopsis also shares genes with a group of more rudimentary life forms, the cyanobacteria.
These people and the attorneys who represent themselves are among the lowest life forms on this planet.
Silicon-based life forms now make short work of tasks that once took us many man hours to accomplish.
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As they report this week in Nature, they found what could be the world's oldest surviving life forms.
Creating organic life forms as tools, the Old Ones fashioned every creature on the planet, including human beings.
And only 10% of the life forms inhabiting that unknown world are known to those on the surface.
Our romance with computer technology, or as I call it, silicon-based life forms, began in 1947 with the transistor.
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Our battle for control over the behavior of silicon-based life forms begins with the battle to control their identities.
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He said he spotted a few small, as-yet unidentified life forms but found the depths to be a "sterile, almost desert-like place".
Fortunately, silicon-based life forms can even help us do the hard work of managing the tools with which they communicate.
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Dr Venter first announced that scientists were working on creating synthetic life forms at a conference in California in 1999.
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He is searching also for other therapeutic gases, in experiments on a variety of life forms ranging from yeast to pigs.
Since such organisms (simple yeasts or bacteria) would carry a brand-new genetic code, they would in effect be new life forms.
Species driven into extinction by mankind will not be replaced by new life forms for around 10 million years, scientists have calculated.
Some scientists even want to create entire new life forms from scratch.
Dr Venter maintains that artificial life forms could produce solutions to global problems such as green sources of fuel and climate change.
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Rather than taking control of us, as the man-versus-machine plotline would have it, silicon-based life forms can actually help us better control them.
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But as computer society has evolved, many machines have quietly declined to speak with us, preferring instead to communicate with like-minded life forms.
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And we also know that several have happened in the past leading to the extinction of all higher life forms at the time.
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The way they thrive in these extreme situations, after all, is by being able to transform substances in ways that most life forms can't.
We will serve silicone-based life forms and they will serve us.
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In contrast, it took carbon-based life forms (us) four billion years to evolve from the humble amoeba to a species capable of imagining and creating Watson.
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So thanks a lot, Ugobe, for throwing those comforting laws right out the window and defining your own Three Laws of Ugobe Life Forms (as follows).
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Sometimes he coughed into his cupped hand, other times into the table, and we imagined microscopic life forms teeming toward the tabletop and ricocheting into breathable space.
The discovery of more than 330 planets outside our solar system in recent years has helped refine the number of life forms that are likely to exist.
By working with leading scientific institutions, we will collate data and catalogue life forms and unlock the wonders of the oceans still unknown to humankind or science.
But there it is, one more case of government agencies, like so many small and large corporations, inventing monetary values for life forms (or depreciating them to near worthlessness).
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