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Plasma Comes Alive

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. Spider Robinson == J. H. (Particular) Christ! by Dr.+Smeegee · · Score: 2, Informative

    Spider Robinson posited this kind of life in Telempath, a way-neato "vengence is stupid" story filled with the usual Robinson themes: Brotherly love, Tolerance and Good Weed.

  2. Re:Mr. Spock's commentary on plasma balls. by ScrewMaster · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, actually in the episode where Spock got the flying fried egg stuck to his back and ended up temporarily blind because Bones used that really bright light to kill the thing, Spock said those exact words after analyzing one of them with his tricorder.

    Besides, in the song "Star Trekkin'" by The Firm, you hear Spock's voice saying "It's life Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it, it's life Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain."

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    The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.