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Scientists Confront 'Weird Life' on Other Worlds
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| Friday, May 7, 2004
| Leonard David
Posted on 05/08/2004 7:08:27 AM PDT by Momaw Nadon
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To: RightWingAtheist
The true cause of dinosaur extinction:
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posted on
05/09/2004 9:34:10 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: attiladhun2
Sulfer-based life? Imagine the BO a Sulferite would give off. Come to think of it, there's some bums who hang around the liquor store near my house that just might be sulfer-based life.As a test you could set a few alight and see if they burn with a blue flame...< /kidding>
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posted on
05/09/2004 9:37:03 AM PDT
by
null and void
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To: Momaw Nadon
Gom Tu!
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posted on
05/09/2004 9:37:51 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '04...It's going to be a bumpy ride,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
To: PatrickHenry; RightWingAtheist
Looking again at this picture ...
![](http://www.louisvillescene.com/arts/performing/2003/photos/p20030328barney.jpg)
I thought perhaps that Barney was wearing an ugly-looking thong which shows his hips to some disadvantage. A look at his other pictures shows to my relief that there is no thong, he's merely naked from the waist down.
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posted on
05/09/2004 9:38:57 AM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(No more purple dinosaur!)
To: Cronos
Sulfur? Too reactive, wouldn't you say?In an oxidizing environment, yes. In, say, an SF6 or H2S atmosphere, no.
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posted on
05/09/2004 9:43:38 AM PDT
by
null and void
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To: Momaw Nadon
Or, more precisely, "Gumptuu".
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posted on
05/09/2004 9:43:42 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '04...It's going to be a bumpy ride,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
To: Doctor Stochastic
Try me.
To: null and void
H2S atmosphere, no.
ooooh, stinky!
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posted on
05/09/2004 10:37:48 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(W2K4)
To: Cronos
*shrug* You get used to it...
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posted on
05/09/2004 10:40:01 AM PDT
by
null and void
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham; null and void
Silicon based life forms are similar to the carbon ones.
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posted on
05/09/2004 10:51:35 AM PDT
by
Reeses
To: Reeses
*sigh* That's SILICONE. Dagnabit, you have no idea how annoying it is to have my home referred to as "Silicone" Valley....
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posted on
05/09/2004 11:00:16 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Nice cleavage, though...)
To: PatrickHenry
"Festival of Repugnant Pink Dinosaurs" placemarker
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:34:25 PM PDT
by
devolve
(................... (..........................Hello from Sunny South Florida!..................)
To: null and void
This is something I don't understand. Silicon-based life need not be stony in appearance, just as carbon-based life need not by, for want of a better word, coaly. Silicon-based life might appear to be similar to carbon-based life; it wouldn't be till you got down to the molecular level that things would begin to appear differently.
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posted on
05/09/2004 1:04:30 PM PDT
by
Junior
(Sodomy non sapiens)
To: Junior
Silicon is a bigger atom than carbon. Chemical bonds have a pretty fixed length. Imagine the molecules as beads on a string, in both cases the length of string between the beads is the same. The string with the bigger beads will be less flexible than the string with small beads.
Silicon based life need not be stony, but it will be less bendy. OTOH, it could survive conditions that would make carbon based life coaly...
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posted on
05/09/2004 1:51:50 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Go to red alert? Are you sure? It does mean changing the bulb...)
To: Junior
116
posted on
05/09/2004 2:29:03 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: PatrickHenry
Could Life be based on Silicon rather than Carbon? I say "No." My computer disagrees.
To: null and void; Cronos
read "Ice World" by the late Hal clcment.
The title is a translation of alien words that mean, roughly, "the place where sulfur itself is solid"
To: Virginia-American
Oddly enough, I'm reading "Mission of Gravity" By Hal Clement right now. I'm about half way through it...
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posted on
05/11/2004 9:22:45 PM PDT
by
null and void
("Don’t duck! They couldn't hit an elephant at this dis...", the late Gen. John Sedgwick 1813-1864)
To: null and void
One of my favorites.
HC had quite an imagination for aliens well-adapted to their environment. He wrote a short story "Uncommon Sense" where the aliens have one sense that is similar to both sight and smell.
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