Comments on: NASA: The Definition of Life Has Just Expanded

By: Mimija39

Mimija39 — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:35:00 +0000

thomas, one should not make assumptions basen on tips and hearbys – one has to go straight to the source, consult afterwards all additional material, weigh in the pros and the cons thoroughly, and then put out an assertion; who told you that Darwin’s theory is just a fill-gap effort – “all refuted”, in addition?
aside that, you are perfectly right, mother nature does have its own ability to protect itself and protect us against many harms, only we would not help it do its job – consider how we are defeating our own immunity system, making it run crazy. Even when we make excesive use of bacteria killers by using the much advertised toiletry products, we knock out our self-defences: we are stupidly playing with the very life programs installed in our DNA.

By: Doppio

Doppio — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:56:47 +0000

Telescopes and spaceships are both a waste of time. The truth is not out there, it’s inside of us.

By: Doppio

Doppio — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:55:47 +0000

True dat… there’s no point in space flight. Huge waste of money that should have gone to life sciences instead.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:21:51 +0000

>Thomas….These extremophiles aren’t merely ‘eating’ the toxins, the arsonic is part of their building blocks of life.

Maybe this is a better explanation….http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/02/nasa-discovers-arsenic-born-organisms-search-for-life-broadens/

(posted twice by mistake)

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:20:51 +0000

>Thomas….These extremophiles aren’t merely ‘eating’ the toxins, the arsonic is part of their building blocks of life.

Maybe this is a better explanation….http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/02/nasa-discovers-arsenic-born-organisms-search-for-life-broadens/

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:53:36 +0000

We have telescopes, radio receivers, thermal imaging, microscopes…all sorts of ways to detect what sorts of things we think may be around us, and among us.

What if there is something else that we’re not aware of, because we have no way to comprehend or detect it yet?

You have no idea how many radio waves are flying through the air…TV, cellular, ham, etc. and you would never be able to make sense of them without a proper receiver.

Think about digital memory…50 years ago, someone would look at a 8gb micro sd card, and assume it was just a little scrap of plastic, but it holds a tremendous amount of data.

Just because we are not aware of it, does not mean it’s not there.

By: n900mixalot

n900mixalot — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:21:58 +0000

Inner space!

By: n900mixalot

n900mixalot — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:21:39 +0000

What, then, is the point of spaceflight? If we don’t even know what we live in now, then why do we need to look elsewhere for anything?

Were you never told to finish what is on your plate before asking for a second helping?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:42:47 +0000

We have been able to develop microbes for years that can eat and need toxic waste. These were formed by man! Who is to say this is any different? They are using microbes to clean up the gulf oil spill.

If one has looked extraterrestrial life actively for 50 years, only to turn to our own planet to try and hypothesize another theory of extraterrestrial life, there is one conclusion. There is none. Not intelligent anyway.

This is what Darwin did to try and justify his theory, he started grasping at straws to fill gaps, and to date they have all been refuted.

Hypothesize this: Perhaps mother nature has in itself the ability to protect itself from toxicity. The same way the body protects itself from viruses. This microbe was found in a place that has high levels of Arsenic… I wonder what we would find in places that have high levels of other toxic bodies?

Quit grasping at straws science, to fund your projects to create a job! We still have a ton of radio telescopes pointed at space that the American taxpayer paid for doing nothing. How about using those dollars to fund space flight?

By: Justin Robert

Justin Robert — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:11:54 +0000

This is something I have been saying all along. Life could be almost anywhere, not just earth-like planets. There could be live on Venus for all we know, we can’t see through the atmosphere at all there, we have no idea what lies on it.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:09:06 +0000

Interesting.

Many might assume that life forms must be similar to what we are familiar with on earth, or maybe something like what we see in the movies.

Who knows what kind of surprises are waiting to be discovered as we develop new ways, and new equipment for looking at our surroundings.