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Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :

Would you count this as Extratterrestial Life?

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

Of course I would, you ugly bag of mostly water. [Wink]

Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :

*snort*

It's an interesting article, though. I'm not inclined to call it life, but I suffer from carbon-bias. I think we'd have to know more about these phenomena and do a little more debating on what life really is before we decide.

Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.

Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :

Now I'll have that song going through my head. [Wall Bash]

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

It's alive. If you've got imperfect replicators and limited resources, you'll get evolution, and that gets you much more copmlicated structures entirely for free, and that gets you unambiguous life. Done.

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

With the caveat that extra-terrestrial it ain't, this is all computer simulation, apparently.

Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :

One of these days I'll write a computer program that can evolve a virtual King of Men.

Then I'll turn off the computer.

Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :

The simple version we got in biology was something had to consume, respond to stimulus, excrete waste, and reproduce. I suppose the dust could be said to consume the electricity, but I'd like to see it respond to stimulus with more oomph than a rock.