Scientists Confront 'Weird Life' on Other Worlds

SPACE.com ^ | Friday, May 7, 2004 | Leonard David

[Mr. K]

OK, how did you make a post that does not have a "To " indicating who you are replying to

[ColdSteelTalon]

If its "weird life" don't you need "WEIRD SCIENCE" to study it???

[Momaw Nadon]

[SedVictaCatoni]

At some point computers will have to be included as well. What's cool about that is we are their God. Will they worship us someday or be embarrassed?

Their fundamentalists will probably proclaim that we created each one instantaneously, and consider the idea that we assembled each slowly through engineering as heretical.

[Momaw Nadon]

OK, how did you make a post that does not have a "To " indicating who you are replying to

Just make the "To:" field blank.

[DoctorMichael]

".....from God's glorious "creation", "evolved" our amazing and beautiful universe....."

I could not agree more! Thank you for posting THIS statement BEFORE the usual crowd shows up and spins the Thread into oblivion. Furthermore:

"......Many of the world greatest scientists of the last several centuries were Christians......"

Spot on.

[EggsAckley]

Are you implying that Gerrald Nadler is a life-form?

[DoctorMichael]

Thanks! I used the right HTML code copied from a 'HTML Sandbox' Thread I have bookmarked, but it didn't work. Oh well.

Notice 'C' (Element #6) is right above #14 (Silicon) indicating these elements have the same electronic configuration.

[Momaw Nadon]

[ColoradoSlim]

I don't have many problems with Greek "classical" thought. Much of our present day science and Western culture has is very roots grounded in ancient Greece. We plan on teaching our children Greek as well as Latin when they are old enough.

[thoughtomator]

It's a freakshow a few blocks east of me in NYC.

[donh]

Many of the world greatest scientists of the last several centuries were Christians

As are many of today's. So what?

[Momaw Nadon]

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The Horta is a remarkably perceptive creature, with impeccable taste.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Sulfur and silicon, maybe...

Something tells me that sulfur or silicon based life forms wouldn't taste very good.

[DoctorMichael]

So what?

To listen to the disparaging remarks made by some of our fellow posters here at FR on numerous Threads, scientists are to be shunned because it is assumed they are irreligious. Thats what.

[microgood]

Sessions on Earth biology, possible Mars habitats, looking for life on Europa -- a moon of Jupiter -- as well as on Titan, a natural satellite of Saturn, are featured topics on the wide-ranging meeting agenda.

I thought they found the monolith on the moon.

[donh]

I think it was Alan Turing that proposed that eventually, we'd send tiny physical automata to the astroid belt, to mine and manufacture endless copies of themselves, in order to eventually ship processed materials back to us, and send scouts on to the rest of a solar system, and, eventually, galaxy.

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There is a theory about the origins of life I don't recall seeing bandied about here on FR. The Silicon-Carbon Flip-Flop holds that organic life was constructed by silicon life of advanced intelligence, as a way of trying to get computing power of a different sort, in that getting more silicon computer power seemed to have reached a dead-end addressing combinatorially explosive problems, in uncovering the nature of the universe.

Eventually, but much sooner than inherent computational limits begin to pinch, carbon-based life, which is inherently more flexible, produces silicon-based life.

So...the purpose of life on earth is to create un-date-able four-eyed hackers who live in the basements of computer science institutes, and live on coca-cola: aint the majestic cosmic cycle awesome?

[Momaw Nadon]

[attiladhun2]

Hang around Berkely for a few days and you'll really think you've been tranported to a whole other solar system.