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Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
Keep in mind, Zorgon does not refute Johns claims. I rarely do, either. This is not the old "silence is consent", but more a case of what i described above: He works on similarities, not differences. This allows for greater synergy.
Originally posted by ArMaP
And, as far as I know, nobody has a good definition of "life", some people argue that even computer viruses can be considered life forms.
Originally posted by zorgon
Zorgon tries to document John's claims... I thought that was obvious by now
Zorgon does not necessaryly belief eveyrthing John believes...
Zorgon has some wacky ideas of his own that never even crossed John's mind... like "CRITTERS"
As to the 'silence" it has been wonderful... perhaps I will give Chorlton another chance and remove the 'cloaking device" I tossed over him..
Originally posted by chickenfeet
Originally posted by zorgon
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hey
were did you get a picture of my ex-wife. I must admit though the blonde is not so bad
Originally posted by ArMaP
That is something that I was about to ask: before we can say that something is or is not a living organism we need a definition,
Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by ArMaP
That is something that I was about to ask: before we can say that something is or is not a living organism we need a definition,
Find me a good definition of an Amoeba then we can go from there...
At NASA's Astrobiology Institute in California, which studies extreme life here and the possibility of it elsewhere, it's far easier to say what life isn't, said institute director Carl Pilcher.
"Right now we may not have the base of knowledge necessary to answer the question, but there are ways we are proceeding," he said.
Last month, the National Academy of Sciences issued a "weird life" report cautioning NASA not to be so focused on water. It told the space agency that "as the search for life in the solar system expands, it is important to know what exactly to search for."
That same report urged NASA to avoid being "fixated on carbon" when it looks for life even though carbon is often called the backbone of life on Earth.
But if carbon isn't a requirement for life, how about silicon? In other words, what about machines?
www.usatoday.com...
Originally posted by mikesingh
That same report urged NASA to avoid being "fixated on carbon" when it looks for life even though carbon is often called the backbone of life on Earth.
But if carbon isn't a requirement for life, how about silicon?
Originally posted by zorgon
And we need to chip in and get Mike some tooth paste... those teeth are NASTY all 200 of them
Now, an international team has discovered that under the right conditions, particles of inorganic dust can become organised into helical structures. These structures can then interact with each other in ways that are usually associated with organic compounds and life itself.
V.N. Tsytovich of the General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, in Moscow, working with colleagues there and at the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany and the University of Sydney, Australia, has studied the behaviour of complex mixtures of inorganic materials in a plasma. Plasma is essentially the fourth state of matter beyond solid, liquid and gas, in which electrons are torn from atoms leaving behind a miasma of charged particles.
Until now, physicists assumed that there could be little organisation in such a cloud of particles. However, Tsytovich and his colleagues demonstrated, using a computer model of molecular dynamics, that particles in a plasma can undergo self-organization as electronic charges become separated and the plasma becomes polarized. This effect results in microscopic strands of solid particles that twist into corkscrew shapes, or helical structures. These helical strands are themselves electronically charged and are attracted to each other.
ufo.whipnet.org...
Originally posted by squiz
Whoa! thanks Mike, I searched at the source, the IoP site for "V.N." "Tsytovich" and found a stack of related papers. I tried to post a link to the search but it didn't work. So here's the homepage. IoP
It's been estimated the universe is 99.999% plasma, hehe a self organizing universe?
Makes gravity seem a little insignificant IMO.
Originally posted by mikesingh
A living universe? Wow!! That concept is mindblowing!!
Originally posted by mikesingh
This effect results in microscopic strands of solid particles that twist into corkscrew shapes, or helical structures. These helical strands are themselves electronically charged and are attracted to each other. [/quote
CRITTER DNA
Nice find mike I will run this by the boys in the plasma department
Originally posted by squiz
I'll be busy for weeks now, great find. It's been estimated the universe is 99.999% plasma, hehe a self organizing universe? Makes gravity seem a little insignificant IMO.