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Inorganic Life?
Freedom Kira:
--- 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.
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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.
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Viruses are these weird things that don't quite fit into any of the five criteria. They only match the reproduction criterion.
pingryanime:
Hence why I said some would argue that they aren't actually "living"
rostheferret:
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...
Ixarku:
--- 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...
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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.
Ultra_Magnus:
--- Quote from: Ixarku on November 30, 2011, 10:46:03 AM ---A better idea would be a robot that eats ... broken political promises.
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It would probably overload from too much energy.
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