Don't believe their cellular / reproductive life is sulphur-based is it - more the energy and nutrient extracting eco-system - sulphur and heat as opposed to chlorophyll and light ?
That would be a turn-up for the books though, if true - non-DNA / RNA biological life on earth. Ian On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Magnus Berg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Horse and Dan > > On 2010-07-11 23:55, Horse wrote: >> >> DNA is information about life - it's not life itself. Biological >> patterns are self-replicating perpetuating patterns which emerge from >> inorganic patterns so I don't see any reason why life can't exist on a >> computer. Carbon based life uses DNA to transmit information about how >> to build and replicate living entities from the simplest single-celled >> creature up, so there is no reason to suppose that other alternate >> life-forms (not necessarily based on carbon) can't use something similar >> to DNA to transmit information about how build and replicate alternate >> forms of life. > > Yes, that too. It's not really life at all, just blueprints. > > Also, regarding Dan's comment about Cassini and Huygens at Saturn (and on > Titan). Does anyone here know more about those sulphur based worms near the > lava vents on the bottom of the Atlantic? I mean, since they are not carbon > based, it's pretty hard to imagine they using DNA for their blueprints, nor > amino acids, proteins etc. etc. We probably don't have to send zoologists to > Titan to find non DNA based life, just a few 1000 m down under the Atlantic > surface will suffice. > > Magnus > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
