Plasma Comes Alive

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Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday September 20, 2003 @03:34AM from the artificial-societies dept.

j_hirny writes "So, it seems that the widely acclaimed theory of how life begun, during hundreds of millions of years is, at least, not the only one which is being researched. As New Scientist report, a physicist managed to create life-alike beings made of plasma. They can replicate, grow and duplicate. They don't have amino-acids or DNA strains, of course, yet they may reveal something new about life's beginnings."

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Plasma Comes Alive... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-20 03:39 · Score: 5, Funny

...but will not sell more records than Frampton.
These guys may be on to something by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-20 03:44 · Score: 5, Funny

My florescent desk lamp has been looking at me funny.
1. Re:These guys may be on to something by twoslice · 2003-09-20 04:02 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  My florescent desk lamp has been looking at me funny.
  I'll bet that your lamp isn't the only thing looking at you funny...
  
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Mathematician's rule of the thumb: by Krapangor · 2003-09-20 04:15 · Score: 5, Funny

if it's published in a journal with a title containing the word "chaos" then it's rubbish propability p is increased by
min(1-p,exp(1/(1-p))).
Some people even throw an integration over the spelling errors in the publication into this formula. (Seiberg's famous bad spelling trace integral.)

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alive? by stevebob2019 · 2003-09-20 04:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Dammit, now PETA is going to come after my new big screen.
Re:Life "out there" by WTFmonkey · 2003-09-20 04:21 · Score: 4, Funny

Um, no. There are MANY other things that mean your time spent learning Klingon was wasted, but this isn't one of them.