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"It’s (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal"
« on: February 03, 2013, 12:27:14 PM »
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Re: "It’s (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal"
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2013, 12:53:40 PM »
Excellent.  Science did these steps in how many years? - and people still doubt nature, over millions of years, with billions of natural experiments in every environment on earth.  With the natural electrochemical interactions nature "tries", our natural evolution is so much more impressive than a magic zap and create omnipotent sky daddy.  I wish theists would dare to appreciate that in the much more fun and exciting way that atheists do.
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Re: "It’s (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal"
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2013, 01:25:04 PM »
OK, these crystals need to understand that they were made in our image and need to look up to us as gods.  Maybe a test for them ... like someplace with a tree and a talking snake .. let me think about that ... I'll get back to you on that later.
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Re: "It’s (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal"
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2013, 04:30:25 PM »
Incredible stuff though!
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Re: "It’s (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal"
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2013, 04:51:47 PM »
I, for one, am happy to pledge my loyalty to our new masters.

The original link has a faulty video but it can be seen here: http://kryptonradio.com/2013/02/01/nyu-scientists-create-a-near-living-steam-propelled-crystal/

That is incredible! They're just like me! You turn the light off and I fall asleep!. But what's the commercial application? I imagine the scene:

[A warehouse:]

A: "Where's that 10 ton of cubes of hematite sheathed in a spherical polymer coat?"
B: " I don't know boss! I came in, switched the light on, and they all ran away..."

Now, if they could reproduce...
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Re: "It’s (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal"
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2013, 09:04:10 AM »
They should introduce the two crystals then the kids will be live, no?
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Re: "It’s (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal"
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2013, 02:47:05 PM »
This is so fucking cool. I hope there are aliens made of crystal.
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Re: "It’s (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal"
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2013, 03:57:33 PM »
Quote from: Sleeping Shadow on February 11, 2013, 02:47:05 PM
This is so fucking cool. I hope there are aliens made of crystal.

Interesting. It's cropped up in science fiction time and again, but could this experiment indicate such life could theoretically exist? Any chemists out there who would care to speculate what kind of environmental conditions might make naturally-evolved photo-silicate life possible?
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