--- In [email protected], "Jeffrey N Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex, > > Uh, let me guess...you watched only the first video.
Ok, guilty as charged. The video was boring, and I was not inspired to watch more of them. However, having now watched the rest of them, there's no way to judge from the video whether the stuff floating around in there is organisms or just chemicals reacting. The stuff drifting back to the edges, however, is clearly just the effect of surface tension. I would think, though, that if the stuff were actually living organisms, it would have been readily apparent had your videos been filmed under a microscope instead of with a videocam. I'd say your next step would be to perform the experiment in laboratory conditions and under a microscope. > --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" > <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Jeffrey Cook <jnoelcook@> wrote: > > > > > > All, > > > > > > I have filmed my latest experiment: this one on "synthetic life." > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/jnoelcook > > > > You're in a kitchen, loudly coughing, wearing shorts and a t-shirt, > > mixing two different liquids in a cup, that as far as I can see, > > remain completely inert throughout the entire video. And, you expect > > us to believe that this is a demonstration of you creating new > > bacterial lifeforms? > > >
