[Marko]

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It would be great to have a super advanced laboratory where we could try to make different kind of lives. Not only being able to control the conditions so that we can determine a species' evolution, but also the genetics and biological start: like taking out phosphorus or another fundamental element. Taking away oxygen would be the most interesting as it would mean the whole system to change.

I know that most drastic speculations about how life could begin include silicon instead of carbon as a base, and ammonia instead of water as a solvent.
However, most observations of the cosmic material and experiments reduced the possibility of some complex organism based on silicon and ammonia, but some simple chemistry; some strange forms of molecules on the boundary between non-organic and organic could be possible.
What you had in mind?