Life

By the time of the calamity http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/5223 primitive silicon life has newly been discovered deep within the magma of the Earth. Lava from an eruption is swept into space by the gravitational beams causing perturbation to the orbital trajectory of the Earth and Moon about the Sun, and effectively seeding silicon life onto the surface of Mercury. Because of the time dilation on Earth and the Moon, intelligent silicon life has adapted to Mercury by the time of Earth encounter.