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To: Mark Felton
No organisms consume inorganic gravel, sand or dust for life support. There is no organic energy in these materials.

See Post 390 and the surrounding discussion. There are indeed bacteria called "Obligate Chemolithoautotrophs" that get all of their energy and body mass from inorganic sources.

Lichens are similar. They can live on a vertical rock face, ingesting water, carbon dioxide, and some minerals.

One of the bacteria in the linked-to post lives on sulfur and requires ferric iron in its environment. Another one can live on car exhaust.

Think of the ecosystem around vents in the ocean floor.

758 posted on 12/29/2005 10:42:22 PM PST by Virginia-American
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To: Virginia-American

Examples of what we got NOW.

From where did they come?


787 posted on 12/30/2005 4:40:40 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Virginia-American
" There are indeed bacteria called "Obligate Chemolithoautotrophs" that get all of their energy and body mass from inorganic sources. Lichens are similar. They can live on a vertical rock face, ingesting water, carbon dioxide, and some minerals."

You add water, a polar molecule essential for life.

When I said nothing lives on inorganic dust, rocks, sand, I meant nothing lives on dust, rock, sand. In the universes I refer to there would be no water.

Water is the first thing we look for when exploring other planets becaus of its importance for life, as we know it. Water has a transformational capability which helps extract energy from other molecules.

837 posted on 12/30/2005 9:08:13 AM PST by Mark Felton ("Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.")
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