Anonymous
10/10/2025, 6:45:14 PM
No.82761648
>>82761562
What's goin' bad right now, anon?
>>82761563
Well we can always do our own experiments with adapting Earth life to those conditions too B^).
>>82761585
Actually a metal based catalyst can pretty much be assumed, life does actually use various metals in their enzymes(which are just protein-based catalysts that can also do motive work too). Zinc is a really popular metal that life will use for its catalysts, but even more exotic stuff like molybdenum(that's actually necessary for nitrogenase to make bioavailable nitrogen).
>borane
Maybe? I'm not sure. I honestly was thinking maybe some kind of organic sulfur compounds might be used since I can't think of many organic compounds that have lots of oxygens on them. I think that's because CO2 is rather stable, isn't it? So it's the preferred arrangement for carbon and oxygen to be bonded, right? If that's the case though then maybe chalcogens are a bust and thus may be ideal -- but I know fluorocarbons are rather stable too, much to our detriment with PFAS.
>>82761638
>I guess theoretically you could also just think of unsaturated carbon carbon bonds as potential hydrogen acceptors. C=C -> H-C-C-H
I think there are actually some organisms here on Earth who do that. Whatever it is though needs to be able to stay soluble in water so it's in the cells themselves -- although perhaps ammonia could work as a solvent over water. People have theorized about that being possible for life too.
What about chlorine-carbon compounds, what are they like?
What's goin' bad right now, anon?
>>82761563
Well we can always do our own experiments with adapting Earth life to those conditions too B^).
>>82761585
Actually a metal based catalyst can pretty much be assumed, life does actually use various metals in their enzymes(which are just protein-based catalysts that can also do motive work too). Zinc is a really popular metal that life will use for its catalysts, but even more exotic stuff like molybdenum(that's actually necessary for nitrogenase to make bioavailable nitrogen).
>borane
Maybe? I'm not sure. I honestly was thinking maybe some kind of organic sulfur compounds might be used since I can't think of many organic compounds that have lots of oxygens on them. I think that's because CO2 is rather stable, isn't it? So it's the preferred arrangement for carbon and oxygen to be bonded, right? If that's the case though then maybe chalcogens are a bust and thus may be ideal -- but I know fluorocarbons are rather stable too, much to our detriment with PFAS.
>>82761638
>I guess theoretically you could also just think of unsaturated carbon carbon bonds as potential hydrogen acceptors. C=C -> H-C-C-H
I think there are actually some organisms here on Earth who do that. Whatever it is though needs to be able to stay soluble in water so it's in the cells themselves -- although perhaps ammonia could work as a solvent over water. People have theorized about that being possible for life too.
What about chlorine-carbon compounds, what are they like?