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- moisie, on 10/10/2007, -5/+102One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the organized helical structures will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new inorganic dust overlords.
- esbern1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+43you're also in the middle of my computer screen, being annoying
- Albionshores, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31The important part of that sentence is 'possible conditions'. Possible conditions in an infinite cosmos makes for probable. Not a smoking gun but certainly a viable shooting range.
- Jakerius, on 10/10/2007, -4/+29It's ALIVE!!!
- silverchrysalis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24anyone else think of this right away?
http://tinyurl.com/vz3tf - Shippwreck87, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Last Tuesday, didn't you get the memo?
- JlmAWP, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Agreed. This isn't LOL Dust.
- scabbers, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20Ugly... bags of mostly water... we declare war.
- drlha, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Well Duh. Did you think they set up a solar system wide gravity free tank to experiment with or something?
- cmiller1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17I submitted it 5 days ago as well http://digg.com/space/Dust_comes_alive_in_space_Times_Online
be a good sport noosaboy ;) - ozydingo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Actually, possible conditions with truly infinite cosmos makes for definite. Broken down; possible means p>0; infinite cosmos means infinite trials, infinite repetitions of the probabilistic event. You repeat an event with a non-zero probability of success infinite times, and you will get a success. The only thing is it may not actually be truly infinite, so we can't conclude definite.
- cyborg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14maybe that's the very beginning of evolution altogether, Inorganic space dust---> simple organic bacteria -------> organized complex organic life forms.
- catalysis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11It's not like that at all.
- NerdyNinja, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Panic only at the Disco.
- aegis9975, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10"Dust"? Alive? Reminds of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials series. . .
- GraceHead, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9different site, not dugg before.
duplicates are when two people digg what is essentially the exact same slice of the internet. - MrNexus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8That sounds like the logic of a ten year old.
- JonnyTrombone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8It's "Organic Meat Bags," thank you very much!
- rzurad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Professor, would you say its time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Yes I would, Kent. - victorycig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Don't Panic
- adgreene, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!!!!
- sodade, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7It won't be so excellent when they strip out the war on god stuff...
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -0/+6SPACE DUST IS PEOPLE
- narc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Iä Iä Cthulhu ftagh'n
- JCSaint, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Maybe you need a dictionary:
probable
apparently destined; "the probable consequences of going ahead with the scheme"
2 probable, likely, plausible
likely but not certain to be or become true or real; "a likely result"; "he foresaw a probable loss" - scrimaxinc, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Your mom was dugg 6 days ago.....and 5 days ago.....and 4.....
- Prathik89, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5PREPARE TO BE BURIED FOR YOUR BLASPHEMY FOOL!
- JCSaint, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5That'd be awesome, though.
- Prathik89, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Haha, thats hilarious!
- yohnstoppable, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I normally digg that joke down, but this one was well executed. I hate it when I see "I for one welcome our best pic you will see all day overlords"
- shake84, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I'm sure enki25 has 12 physics PHDs, which is why he gets online to anonymously verify research done by those unqualified buffoons at the Institute of Physics.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8nobody cares.......... nobody cares............ nobody cares nobody cares nobody cares ........ nobody cares nobody cares nobody cares .......... nobody cares nobody cares nobody cares cares carrrrrrrrrrrresssssssss.
to the tune of bethoven's 5th - DeFex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5the elements are not random. they fit together in organized ways "crystals". or even with different elements "molecules" which also can fit together in organized ways.
Take your "science" back to church. - Doomba, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7He's right, it's not a scientific process we don't understand, it's Jesus magic!
- sabach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Critical thinking FTW
- h4mx0r, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be-... Oh wait.
- milo77, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4While not exactly the same thing, this does remind me of prions: infectious, abnormally folded proteins whose structure can convert normally folded proteins into the abnormal form. Essentially proteins that can make copies of themselves without any DNA. It is the source of mad cow [paraphrased from wikipedia].
- unleasheduncle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4'lifelike characteristics' when you stop and look at the molecular level, actually seem extremely abiotic. Life itself is really nothing more than a series of coordinated chemical reactions, themselves designed to be as self-sustaining as possible, right? (and please, correct me if i am mistaken)
Therefore, if this dust is in fact organizing itself, replicating itself, then it is indeed displaying 'lifelike characteristics' and may indeed be 'alive' just by a different definition than we're used to. It's an awfully big universe. Plus, remember the earth was around for more than a couple of years before life began, you don't think it's possible that a lightening strike made some form of life that developed slowly and eventually into a fully operational cell? The article isn't saying it went "ZAP! egads, a cell!" They're saying it was lightening, something sort of alive, which formed the basis for the carbon-based life as we know it. - gann, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Dave the Star Child, is that you?
- Gabberwok, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
- NerdyNinja, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Why, exactly? Life has to start somewhere, and somewhere along the line, something inanimate had to turn into something animate, right? It's not like a bunch of monkeys came flying out of the big bang to crash land on earth, in our case. They say that the conditions required for this aren't uncommon in that vast thing we call the universe, so why is plasma such a bad place to start? I'd say that if they're observing (well, observing from a man made simulation, anyway) basic mitosis from inanimate objects, and seeing odd interactions between these objects, who's to say that's not a step in the evolutionary ladder? I know I don't have a counter proof lying around, do you?
- rchargel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4"Bags of mostly water" is in reference to an early episode for the original Star Trek series, where these aliens keep calling the humans "bag of mostly water". At this point Spock feels the need to state the obvious and explain to the captain that humans are primarily composed of water. I know this, and I am not even "in" to star trek. Someone shoot me.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4epic FAIL.
- neoq36, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5under the right conditions Bush might actually find WMD
- shake84, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Almost as silly as someone with no qualifications and no research on the topic trying to debunk the research of the Institue of Physics geeks.
- Namco, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Awesome comment.
- kuj007, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3At least it fit for once...
Better than the "I welcome our new larger GMail inbox overlords" that you'd normally see - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Behold the awesome power of the Core 2 Duo. It can create life itself!
- yohnstoppable, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Momma always said tinyurl links were like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get
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