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Why Life Runs on Carbon and Metal, Not Silicon

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Life is a metal-powered, opportunistic system that built everything from the universe’s leftovers, and Earth’s rocks still record how microbes and oxygen transformed the planet.

From 'An Astrobiologist Pieces Together How Life Started, with Betül Kaçar': https://youtu.be/72ugdkB7oQ4?si=HSGiZx5qg9gTZTZJ

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