Plasma blobs hint at new form of life

New Scientist ^ | 09/17/03 | David Cohen

[AndrewC]

Here we have spontaneously-arising self-organizing complex systems.

Are you serious? Solar prominences and the sun itself are more complex than ephemeral ball lightning.

[Junior]

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. Now, how did that ID argument go that complex self-organizing systems were impossible without a designer?

[AndrewC]

Now, how did that ID argument go that complex self-organizing systems were impossible without a designer?

Strawmen don't fight back. When you define a salt crystal as complex and self-organizing, it is easy to say complex self-organizing systems are possible without a designer. Try again.

[antonia]

NASA STS-75 Tether Incident UFO

Begins with video from flight STS-48, a little more than halfway through it shows the tether footage. It is approxamatly 11 min. long.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=TqcmmcoTX3U   Please pardon the background sound effects and music, but this is the most complete version.

 

UFO NASA's unexplained tether overload incident, 6 min long.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=As-wYmFYb3I

 

It looks like stuff under the microscope, but couldn't these be blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate and communicate; they could communicate information by emitting electromagnetic energy, making the atoms within other spheres vibrate at a particular frequency. The spheres are not the only self-organising systems to meet all of these requirements. But they are the first gaseous "cells".