> From a layman's point of view all the article says to me is > the old Sci-Fi shibboleth about "Silicon based life forms" > isn't so far out of the realm of possibility as the critics > once claimed, i.e. that there are other chemical processes > that can be "life" beyond those we are commonly familiar with. >
I don't think anybody is really surprised about the finding. I have no scientific education to speak of, but I remember when I first read The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins how simple it all seemed, according to his wonderful explanation, and how unsurprising it is that some sort of replicators got started in the primordial soup. I'd be surprised if the whole universe isn't teeming with life, and almost as surprised if I die before it's been confirmed on Europa or some other such body. > For me, the only real surprise is that these guys managed to > get funding for their research in the current anti-Science > climate that prevails here in the U.S. you are not alone. The is the dawning of the age of the yahoo. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
