Ahh yes, nice concept here. New Years have concepts too, how's fortnightly sounding? :'D ;-)

Okay. Just here to try this out so wish us luck ;)

I find the above topic interesting because it speaks to the extremes at which life can exist. In doing a brief search for 'highest living life-forms' (atmospherically high... please); I was not surprised to see information pertaining to the possibility of upper atmosphere microbes, and ultimately not too surprised at sulphur cave bacteria, or volcanic vent bacteria.

Essentially, I've made peace with the what seems to be an 'inexplicably potent tendancy' for life to want to exist, here. By here I mean earth.

Yet a very small distance away from 'here', about the smallest possible 'astronomical pebbles' nudge' away, there is a 'space' deemed near utterly devoid of life.

And then the question of life's locally observed 'virility' applying to a place 'not so local'?

Could a resistant silicone based life form not exist around its same cloistered undersea vent. For context I'm assuming a planet and atmosphere energetic enough to have a rock 'precipitation cycle' the reason for this being that its context is so utterly different to ours that we instinctively know very little from 'this local emergence of life' could survive there.

But beneath ashen clouds, bolts of mile wide red lightning, rock literally raining from the loudest of heavens into a molten (rock) sea, beneath all that, could not a simple silicone based lifeform begin to be born around the lip of a vent....