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Scientists Confront 'Weird Life' on Other Worlds
SPACE.com ^
| Friday, May 7, 2004
| Leonard David
Posted on 05/08/2004 7:08:27 AM PDT by Momaw Nadon
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To: Momaw Nadon
Ive allways liked the question "If we saw life would we recognize it?" We tend to think within our own sphere of knowledge. Just because life on earth is carbon based doesn't mean life elswhere can't be copper or helium based.
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:15:37 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
To: Momaw Nadon
They can do the field studies in the East Village... now THAT is "weird" life!
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:19:53 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(yesterday Kabul, today Baghdad, tomorrow Damascus)
To: Momaw Nadon
I would think that the first question this group would have to answer is "What is life?" If they're limiting themselves to carbon-based genetic code, they may be entering into the project with a willful myopia.
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:21:16 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Momaw Nadon
Because I have no scientific background, I wonder why "carbon based" is the only point of interest. Might'nt there be other bases for life forms?
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:22:30 AM PDT
by
bannie
(Liberal Media: The Most Dangerous Enemies to America and Freedom)
To: cripplecreek
Just what I thought.
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:23:16 AM PDT
by
bannie
(Liberal Media: The Most Dangerous Enemies to America and Freedom)
To: PatrickHenry
Ping!!
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:26:08 AM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(When the countdown hits zero - something's gonna happen..)
To: bannie
Think about it. The possibilities are endless. Of the planets we've detected around distant stars at least one is 4 times the size of Jupiter but orbits its sun at a distance equal to earths. Any life that developed on it would have to overcome enormous gravitational forces and likely radiation. But that doesnt mean it can't.
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:27:42 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
To: cripplecreek
I watched
Star Trek. Not all lives are carbon based.
:-)
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:30:48 AM PDT
by
bannie
(Liberal Media: The Most Dangerous Enemies to America and Freedom)
To: cripplecreek
Just because life on earth is carbon based doesn't mean life elswhere can't be copper or helium based.Copper doesn't form large molecules. Helium is inert, doesn't bond with anything.
Sulfur and silicon, maybe...
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:32:29 AM PDT
by
null and void
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To: Momaw Nadon
You have to keep in mind…we know what life is on this planet and we still haven’t figured out how it got started It was created by the Creator of the Universe.
To: Momaw Nadon
Weird Life?...Just check out the left side of the aisle.
Lando 
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:36:41 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: null and void
Coal people ?
To: Momaw Nadon
The other half of the astrobiology effort, Meyer said, is to help guide what kind of life-detection instruments should be made. The best life-detection instrument is fried chicken. Send a box, with light sensitive cells embeded in the legs and breasts, to any planet to be tested. If it is eaten, there is life, if not, there is not.
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:38:42 AM PDT
by
William Terrell
(Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Crab people live!!!! I saw them on south park once.
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:40:45 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
To: Momaw Nadon
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:43:35 AM PDT
by
Maceman
(Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
To: KevinDavis
Ping!
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:44:17 AM PDT
by
Momaw Nadon
(Goals for 2004: Re-elect President Bush, over 60 Republicans in the Senate, and a Republican House.)
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:47:28 AM PDT
by
Momaw Nadon
(Goals for 2004: Re-elect President Bush, over 60 Republicans in the Senate, and a Republican House.)
To: Maceman
PAAAAIIINNNNNN!!!!!!!! THE PAAAIIINNNNN!!!!!!
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posted on
05/08/2004 7:51:01 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
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