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Offline GoGeTa006

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Inorganic Life?
« on: November 30, 2011, 12:46:03 AM »
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20906-lifelike-cells-are-made-of-metal.html

basically some scientist claims to have created life based on metal and not carbon. . .

if this is true then a new completely different view of the universe (life outside earth to be specifically) can be considered. . .

ergo the autobots and the decepticons might be found one of these days. . .

interesting huh?
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Offline Ixarku

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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2011, 01:15:53 AM »
Pretty cool.  Makes me wonder what kind of antibiotics would kill bacteria made from tungsten.
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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2011, 01:18:26 AM »
So true, imagin ET bacteria getting introduced into our environment. 
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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2011, 02:28:43 AM »
Wow cool now a rock on the road can kick my ass without me noticing.

NANOBOTS EVERYWHERE!
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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2011, 02:45:43 AM »
Without digging too deep into semantics, doesn't this mean that life is organic, just not carbon based lifeform?
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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2011, 02:50:31 AM »
Quote from: AceHigh on November 30, 2011, 02:45:43 AM
Without digging too deep into semantics, doesn't this mean that life is organic, just not carbon based lifeform?

if you're referring to the title of the thread. . .I know what you mean but "academically" I have learned that organic-*insert here* means its carbon based

the name is funny

iChells. . .

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Offline AceHigh

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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2011, 02:57:08 AM »
Ah, "organic" and "carbon based" are just synonymous words, now I know.
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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2011, 03:09:29 AM »
Iirc, it's compounds containing carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and a fifth one that I can't think of defines "organic." It's been a while since I had chemistry >_<

And that article. Tbh it's nothing new and scientist are aware that life could exist that hasn't evolved the way it did on Earth. The problem they face though: How to detect such life if you have not really made a definition on what life is and the knowledge so far about carbon-based organisms can't be transferred so easily.
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Offline AceHigh

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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2011, 03:38:35 AM »
Self reproduction, mutation/evolution alone should qualify, right? After all that is pretty much what viruses are, it's not like they are sentient or anything like that.
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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2011, 04:00:07 AM »
There are those who argue that viruses aren't actually alive as well.
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Offline Freedom Kira

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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2011, 04:51:09 AM »
Quote from: newy on November 30, 2011, 03:09:29 AM
How to detect such life if you have not really made a definition on what life is and the knowledge so far about carbon-based organisms can't be transferred so easily.

Well, there are those five criteria that define living things, of which I can only remember two right now:
1. Living things consume energy
2. Living things reproduce

Quote from: pingryanime on November 30, 2011, 04:00:07 AM
There are those who argue that viruses aren't actually alive as well.

Viruses are these weird things that don't quite fit into any of the five criteria. They only match the reproduction criterion.
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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2011, 05:48:41 AM »
Hence why I said some would argue that they aren't actually "living"
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Offline rostheferret

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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2011, 09:43:22 AM »
My sister was telling me about this, along with the research to develop a robot capable of consuming meat to replenish it's energy. So what we're developing are self-evolving, intelligent, meat eating robots. Smooth move science...
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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #13 on: November 30, 2011, 10:46:03 AM »
Quote from: rostheferret on November 30, 2011, 09:43:22 AM
My sister was telling me about this, along with the research to develop a robot capable of consuming meat to replenish it's energy. So what we're developing are self-evolving, intelligent, meat eating robots. Smooth move science...

I'm not sharing my damn steak with Robby the Robot!  A better idea would be a robot that eats garbage, or is powered by the tears of noobs, or better yet, broken political promises.
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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #14 on: November 30, 2011, 02:08:26 PM »
Quote from: Ixarku on November 30, 2011, 10:46:03 AM
A better idea would be a robot that eats ... broken political promises.

It would probably overload from too much energy.
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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #15 on: November 30, 2011, 03:07:56 PM »
Quote from: Ixarku on November 30, 2011, 10:46:03 AM
Quote from: rostheferret on November 30, 2011, 09:43:22 AM
My sister was telling me about this, along with the research to develop a robot capable of consuming meat to replenish it's energy. So what we're developing are self-evolving, intelligent, meat eating robots. Smooth move science...

I'm not sharing my damn steak with Robby the Robot!  A better idea would be a robot that eats garbage, or is powered by the tears of noobs, or better yet, broken political promises.

I think what he was getting at is that they would eat us and take over the planet.

Maybe just my misconception though.
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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #16 on: November 30, 2011, 03:32:02 PM »
Quote from: xShadow on November 30, 2011, 03:07:56 PM
Quote from: Ixarku on November 30, 2011, 10:46:03 AM
Quote from: rostheferret on November 30, 2011, 09:43:22 AM
My sister was telling me about this, along with the research to develop a robot capable of consuming meat to replenish it's energy. So what we're developing are self-evolving, intelligent, meat eating robots. Smooth move science...

I'm not sharing my damn steak with Robby the Robot!  A better idea would be a robot that eats garbage, or is powered by the tears of noobs, or better yet, broken political promises.

I think what he was getting at is that they would eat us and take over the planet.

Maybe just my misconception though.

I knew I should have dropped a Skynet reference in there...
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Offline kitamesume

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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #17 on: November 30, 2011, 04:37:38 PM »
i smell http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970472/, no i mean literally.
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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #18 on: November 30, 2011, 11:21:22 PM »
cant wait for living nano computers so that we can start super proactive diagnosis of disease by constant internal monitors
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Re: Inorganic Life?
« Reply #19 on: November 30, 2011, 11:40:00 PM »
^LOL fractale anime...

so thats Vexille AND fractale in the making...
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