[extropy-chat] ET is a Bacterium was Dark Matter and ET.

[Lifespan Pharma Inc.]

I still find it still ironic  that we still learn as much from 
observation of and recombination from novelty in nature as from
pure original science.  Not to detract from the art of building with 
legos VS the designing of lego systems from atoms
but it appears that the IC is one of the few really novel things we have 
come up with and that is what we are good at and therefore that is where 
our success lies. 

Learning how to create computational strings and recognize computational 
signatures seems to be our purpose as a species.
The singularity will be both a celebration and something of a 
disappointment because it must be assumed until known otherwise
that the rate of novelty will slow down unless the "wall" we hit drops 
to reveal yet more new opportunities for
exploration of change.

The redesigning of consciousness as we know it as we evolve into a more 
stable bioform is maybe OK enough
for stage we are at..... it was the magic and myth of eons of 
civilization and now is the job at hand.


Mike Lorrey wrote:

>--- The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>The beast you are describing is an ultra
>>>extremophile that
>>>would use catalytic elements like tungsten and other
>>>high temperature
>>>elements in its protiens and today would be
>>>generally inert at normal
>>>temps and pressures.
>>>
>>>Such creatures already exist in the Archaea and
>>>thrive throughout the
>>>earth's crust.
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>>Point well taken. But it is still entrely possible
>>that the common ancestor of both Eubacteria and
>>Archaea came from outer space. The fact that Archaea
>>are such extremophiles make it likely they could exist
>>on other planets and not just the "garden" variety,
>>but in the crust of Io for example or under the frozen
>>oceans of Europa. They are fascinating little buggers
>>though. Eating iron, beathing sulfur . . . as alien as
>>you get without leaving Terra.
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>The problem is that extremophiles tend to not survive extremes they
>aren't built for. A high pressure, high temp extremophile doesn't do
>well at low pressure/no pressure low temperature and vice versa. Bugs
>evolved for cold just die as their protiens precipitate out of solution
>when temps get too high. Hot, high pressure bugs see their protiens
>contract so tight that they tear themselves apart.
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