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[quote:rken:MV8xMTEzNTg2XzI2MDg5MTE3XzQ4NDBFNTk2] [quote:Krispy71] [quote:PRECEPTOR 1476622] Think about these connections ~ to AUgie [OIL and WATER] [/quote] [i][color=indigo][b]Oil and plasma life[/b][/color] http://www.decodingtheheavens.com/blog/post/2011/02/23/Oil-and-plasma-life.aspx PLASMA Mircea Sanduloviciu and Erzilia Lozneanu at Cuza University claimed to have created [u]self-organising blobs of gaseous plasma that could grow, replicate and even communicate.[/u] Fascinated, I asked reporter David Cohen to write a news story about the work. The researchers were simulating lightning strikes by sending sparks between two electrodes in a low-temperature plasma of argon (a plasma is a gas in which some of the atoms have been split into electrons and charged ions). These electric sparks caused the ions and electrons in the plasma to form spheres. Each sphere had a boundary made up of two layers - an outer layer of negatively charged electrons and an inner layer of positively charged ions. Trapped inside the boundary was an inner nucleus of gas atoms. The spheres ranged in size from a few micrometres up to three centimetres across, depending on amount of energy in initial spark. [u]The spheres could replicate by dividing into two, and grew[/u] by taking up neutral argon atoms and splitting these into ions and electrons to replenish their boundary layers. [u]They could even apparently communicate information by emitting electromagnetic energy, which made the atoms within other spheres vibrate at a particular frequency[/u]. OIL & WATER But one speaker, Martin Hanczyc of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, was taking a very different approach to life. He is looking for [u]life-like behaviours in drops of oil[/u]. I've written a news story about Hanczyc's work for Nature's website, and there are some nice videos of the oil drops here ([u]moving autonomously[/u]) and here ([u]responding to a pH gradient[/u]). Hanczyc puts his oil droplets into a watery solution, and feeds them with a chemical "fuel" such as hydrogen cyanide (which would have been around on the early Earth). When the fuel reacts with water at the boundary of the drops it alters their surface tension, which causes them to move. As well as trundling about under their own steam, [u]the droplets can sense and respond to chemical gradients[/u]. The droplets can also [u]sense each other, a rudimentary form of chemical communication[/u], and [u]their past actions influence future ones - which you could interpret as a kind of memory[/u]. [u]Watery compartments within the oil drops could start to create more complex structures[/u]. Hanczyc and his colleagues are now working on getting the droplets to divide and replicate. While other researchers at the meeting weren't convinced that this has anything to do with how life actually started on Earth, Hanczyc says he wants his work to serve as a reminder about the wide variety of forms that life might be able to take. [u]The behaviours seen in his oil droplets happen extremely easily[/u], he says, just by "throwing things into a pot". And, he points out,[u] many biological reactions happen more easily in oil than they do in water[/u]. However the work does suggest that these plasma spheres form very easily. So could they be common in the universe, and given the right conditions, [u]could they ever form the basis of a new kind of "plasma life"? [/u] [u]Characteristics and structures within the oil drops can be passed on from generation to generation[/u], he says (I think he means things like chemical composition or presence of sub-compartments). In other words, [u]heritable information is there, but it is embedded in the chemistry of the drops themselves, rather than encoded within a genetic molecule[/u]. Hanczyc admits that such characteristics would be dependent on the environment and easily lost if conditions changed, but says we should be open to [u]the possibility of a form of life that is intimately entwined with its environment in this way[/u]. [color=green][b]Plasma blobs hint at new form of life [/b][/color] http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4174-plasma-blobs-hint-at-new-form-of-life.html Physicists have created blobs of gaseous [u]plasma that can grow, replicate and communicate[/u] - fulfilling most of the traditional requirements for biological cells. Without inherited material they cannot be described as alive, but the researchers believe these curious spheres may offer a radical new explanation for how life began. A distinct boundary layer that confines and separates an object from its environment is one of the four main criteria generally used to define living cells. Sanduloviciu decided to find out if his cells met the other criteria: the ability to replicate, to communicate information, and to metabolise and grow. He found that the spheres could replicate by splitting into two. Under the right conditions they also got bigger, [u]taking up neutral argon atoms and splitting them into ions and electrons to replenish their boundary layers[/u]. Finally, they could [u]communicate information by emitting electromagnetic energy[/u], making the atoms within other spheres vibrate at a particular frequency. [u]The spheres are not the only self-organising systems to meet all of these requirements. But they are the first gaseous "cells". [/u] [b]But perhaps the most intriguing implications of Sanduloviciu's work are for life on other planets. "The cell-like spheres we describe could be at the origin of other forms of life we have not yet considered," he says. Which means our search for extraterrestrial life may need a drastic re-think. There could be life out there, but not as we know it.[/b][/i] AUgie ? xxx K [/quote] These are the life forms we see around volcanos drawing energy from the plasma discharges, many have mistaken them for UFO's. Isn't life wonderful in the many forms it takes. Rken [/quote]
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