New discovery - possible extraterrestrial life
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Great post! Let's hope it is extra terrestrial. If this red goop rained down, what happened to what was not collected? Is it out there? Alive? Growing and getting ready to take o...
Ultima Dragoon
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
Oh snap. 
Maybe they are darleks.
Maybe they are darleks.
Heretic_Cata
We're gonna live forever
Excelent article 
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Please keep us posted on how this research evolves. I doubt i'll hear anything on the news.
These kinds of news are usually omited. 
. Please keep us posted on how this research evolves. I doubt i'll hear anything on the news.
These kinds of news are usually omited. 
Winner
Diverse in Unity
Nice, how long will it take before these things eradicate all DNA-based life on Earth? 
Perfection
The Great Head.
Don't worry, I got a whole crapload of "Head & Shoulders" just in case they stop by.Winner said:Nice, how long will it take before these things eradicate all DNA-based life on Earth?
Willowmound
Wordbug
Birdjaguar said:
Ha ha! This is the coolest thing I have read all week, possibly the coolest thing this side of Christmas. If they turn out to be aliens, well, then it's the coolest thing ever. (I can't believe this hasn't made the evening news!)
MjM
Deity
I dont think its ET's.
aaglo
Furioso!
That's cool news 
I think I'm a believer
I think I'm a believer
classical_hero
In whom I trust
I hate to spoil this, but life must mean that you can reproduce without a host and since they need a host to survive, then they are not life.
Narz
keeping it real
Awesome! 
Willowmound
Wordbug
classical_hero said:
Are you talking about our red 'alien' firends? According to the article, they do reproduce on their own.
Urederra
Mostly harmless
Winner said:Nice, how long will it take before these things eradicate all DNA-based life on Earth?
The day of the triffids mwaaaahhahahahaha....
SupremeC said:
Well, according to my biology teacher, they are not, because they don't comply with the three rules of life;
- they don't reproduce by themselves (They need the reproductive machinery of a cell)
- They don't interact with the enviroment (no phototaxia, no quimiotaxia, etc)
- They don't assimilate substances from the exterior and incorporate them to their body (no anabolism/catabolism)
but my microbiology teacher says that they are living organisms, and they are given a binomial taxonomic name just like other living organism.
Urederra
Mostly harmless
Well, they already know each other, and I left the university some years ago. I still write what they said in present, just because I have good memories from there.
IIRC from what I read about this it's not exactly a majority view that these are in fact from space, the debate is still raging as far as I know, but I'd advise you don't take it at face value, at least until the case is closed.
Sorry to be a wet blanket.
I'd put up a few links but the website in questions archive has bombed.
Sorry to be a wet blanket.
I'd put up a few links but the website in questions archive has bombed.
Winner
Diverse in Unity
Urederra said:
Yeah, I've read that book, it's a good one
But triffids were at least multicellular plants...
Shaihulud
Deity
I want an independant collection of the samples. The primary source of the sample is contaminated in my opinion, by a biased Scientist. How do we know where he got those 'things', maybe from a hotspring and not from the sky as he say and if it was multiplying. Then there should be multiple source of this organism found around the site of the rain.
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