On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, thomas malloy wrote: > Vortexians; > > > > >Also... whenever electrochemistry is concerned, I always wonder if > >hyperthermophilic nanobacteria have involved themselves. They specialize > > If nanobacteria are doing the reaction, why is electricity required?
Exactly. What does nano-metabolism look like if it can be a "parasite" on But I'm just speculating. If nanobacteria play roles in various reactions which we currently consider to be purely inorganic, then it wouldn't be so impossible to see if this is true: just run the reactions under truely sterile conditions. (Figure out some bio-toxin which wipes them out.) I think the reason we currently consider the reactions to be inorganic is because we don't see any organisms (since they're 300nM and smaller,) and the reactions run the same even if all the materials were "sterilized" by heat. Wouldn't it be cool if many simple electrochem reactions (batteries, electroplating) refused to work if they lacked nanobactrial surface catalysts? > According to Reich, nanobacteria, or something similar, can be > produced by placing beach sand, previously heated to incandescence on > sterile growth medium, in a orgone accumulator. Perhaps this strategy > might be useful in inducing LENRs. It is reported that when he > followed the above scenario, it gave him a tan with his clothes on, > IMHO, that's a scarry thought. Whoa, I've been musing about nanobacteria for years, yet totally forgot about 'bions' claims! Ooo! Ultraviolet! Brainstorm! More wild-ass speculation: suppose that "shrunken hydrogen" is real, and that life figured out long ago how to catalyze the exotherm reaction converting water to shrunk-H. If so, then nanobacteria would tend to emit the Black Light frequencies of "Blacklight Power Inc." Another topic: "strain 121", the hydrothermal vent bacteria which prefers to live at 121C, actually came from much hotter water. 130C is the current temperature record for living organisms in the lab, but nobody knows how high other yet-to-be-cultured organisms might go, and also I think the spore form of bacteria can survive higher temperatures than living ones. Vent water has been measured at 400C. I have fantasies that some bacteria prefer incandescent temperatures, that like many colonies they have metabolism which can generate their preferred environment, that they infect the Earth to hundreds of miles depth if not thousands... and that volcanos are biological! (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-789-0775 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
