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Tough Earth bug may be from Mars
New Scientist ^
| 25 September 02
| Stuart Clark
Posted on 09/26/2002 3:12:44 PM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Physicist
Wasn't it a copy of the New Scientist that was carried by the First Kidnapped Physicist in the movie "The Ipcress File"?
To: SauronOfMordor
Perhaps the natural reactors in South Africa or Brazil?
To: Doctor Stochastic
Well, that changes everything.
To: PatrickHenry
Lab-induced evolution bump.They were bugs before and they're bugs now. Micro-evolution bump. ; * )
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posted on
09/26/2002 8:29:13 PM PDT
by
dubyagee
To: Nebullis
Haploid?
Bananas are triploid. Some frogs s(a)pontaneously self-tetraploidize their offspring which cannot breed with the diploids.
Sesquiploidy would be interesting.
(The above is mostly for the sound, not the sense.)
To: Nebullis
I had always heard that the anti-penicillin stuff had evolved as a defence against molds.
To: Doctor Stochastic
Bananas are triploid. Time flies when youre havin fun and fruit flies like bananas.
To: PatrickHenry
An "I just had a Bloom County flashback" placemarker.
Aach pftht!
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posted on
09/27/2002 2:13:31 AM PDT
by
Junior
To: Heartlander; sleavelessinseattle
Arthropod ALERT! Get the magnifying glass! &;-)
To: Heartlander
It seems like this could be possible by leaving the microbes near a radioactive mineral deposit, maybe Uranium or Thorium. Or is this article about funding again?
To: AndrewC
"I wouldn't bet this will change one Darwininian's mind." And why should it. The ability to develop genetic immunity to antibiotics was developed to survive chemical attacks BY OTHER BACTERIA. After all, that is all that antibiotics are--chemicals developed by bacteria that are fatal to other bacteria. In other words "..bacterias antbiotic fighting arsenal" actually arose in response to ANCIENT antibiotics.
To: Wonder Warthog
And why should it. The ability to develop genetic immunity to antibiotics was developed to survive chemical attacks BY OTHER BACTERIAThanks for proving my point. You have moved from actual laboratory demonstration to just-so stories.
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09/27/2002 6:00:21 AM PDT
by
AndrewC
To: AndrewC
"You have moved from actual laboratory demonstration to just-so stories." Typical brain-dead creationist response. Try looking at a petri dish. That ability is exactly how they TEST FOR BIOLIOGICAL ACTIVITY. Chemical attack is the mode of action in the single-celled world, the ability to quickly adapt to such an attack is well-documented, and by no means "just-so stories". But then, you wouldn't know about that, would you.
To: <1/1,000,000th%
It seems like this could be possible by leaving the microbes near a radioactive mineral deposit, maybe Uranium or Thorium.How about cobalt thorium G?
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posted on
09/27/2002 6:13:31 AM PDT
by
AndrewC
To: Wonder Warthog
Typical brain-dead creationist response. Also demonstrating the Darwininians typical response.
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posted on
09/27/2002 6:14:37 AM PDT
by
AndrewC
To: Nebullis
No problem. For this experiment, without regeneration, you'd need 1x1088bacteria.Indeed. This would easily be kept in a volume no more than 370,000 times the volume of the observable universe.
Knock yourself out!
To: Karl_Lembke; TN4Liberty
You may want to direct your post to TN4Liberty, who maintains that bacteria weren't regrown between cycles. I was gently trying to lead him to see the stupidity of his position.
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posted on
09/27/2002 7:23:17 AM PDT
by
Nebullis
To: Doctor Stochastic
Multiploidy is very common. Especially in plants.
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posted on
09/27/2002 7:25:09 AM PDT
by
Nebullis
To: AndrewC
How about cobalt thorium G?I don't remember the decay schemes exactly, but if you start with a large nuclei like uranium, it'll run through a lot of the smaller, more radioactive species like cobalt as it decays into other elements. A lot of the really radioactive elements are so short-lived that they only occur when they decay from something else.
To: Karl_Lembke
Indeed. This would easily be kept in a volume no more than 370,000 times the volume of the observable universe. Think of the pooper-scooper you'd need to clean that up.
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