A favorite theme for confounding theories of evolution is to postulate life came to Earth from elsewhere and may have been delivered by a comet or something of that nature. In an experiment on the International Space Station, they proved algae can survive on the outside surface. (Science Daily: Algae survive heat, cold and cosmic radiation)
The many different organisms from all participating partners were all mounted in such trays and then exposed to space on the outside of the ISS for one and a half years.
Credit: © ESA/ROSCOSMOS
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They're alive! Two algae survived 16 months on the exterior of the International Space Station ISS despite extreme temperature fluctuations and the vacuum of space as well as considerable UV and cosmic radiation. That was the astonishing result of an experiment conducted by Dr. Thomas Leya at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI in Potsdam in cooperation with German and international partners. This labor-intensive experiment was part of the large-scale Biology and Mars Experiment (BIOMEX), a project coordinated by Dr. Jean-Pierre de Vera at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin. Dr. Leya himself had isolated the green algal strain CCCryo 101-99 of Sphaerocystis sp. on Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago, and prepared it together with the cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. (CCCryo 213-06), a blue-green alga from Antarctica. CCCryo stands for Culture Collection of Cryophilic Algae. Nostoc sp. and Sphaerocystis sp. are examples of cold-loving, or cryophilic, strains. They have special adaptation strategies to oppose cold and desiccation, allowing them to survive even under extreme conditions.
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Note from the top, the Rockhouse has no problem with Christmas; it's the only time of year to find marzipan.
The life from extraterrestrial sources is a theological gold mine since it brings more to the War on Christmas than a year of righteous indignation from Richard Dawkins. If the creature made in God's image is actually on some other planet, a whole lot of religious teaching goes up in smoke.
For Christianity, it probably doesn't poof since Jesus was the Son of God but I don't believe God was identified in any kind of way so he could have been making beings of that nature on every planet he liked but the existence of them wouldn't really rip Christianity to shreds unless it's hard-core fundamental.
There's no need to reprise the Rockhouse theology since it's so generic it fits anything. It's the considerations for those most aligned with this or that philosophy which are interesting because the idea life came from somewhere else won't wash too well when they're taught God created us.
The theology is one part of the sci fi but the other part is wtf do you mean life can travel through space. If that's true then it can bring some type of disease which mysteriously affects humans and Michael Crichton can go to town with a plague novel.
This one is thin since it assumes all life hinges on DNA but that kind of terracentric thinking will never do. Maybe these creatures don't reproduce because they have the ability to regenerate any part of themselves which gets damaged and they live forever. They have a form of asexual reproduction since any time they need more of themselves they can whack off a pod and it will generate another creature ... zero DNA.
Ed: what if the creature can't infect us but it spews some poisonous gas into the atmosphere?
Humans do that already, mate. You could ask them about that in Bhopal but they're all dead.
Seeing the algae survive there means it can can survive almost anywhere so that gives a great boost to visiting Enceladus to discover what's in its underground seas. (Ithaka: NASA: Potentially Hospitable Enceladus)
Ed: yeah, sure. Then bring it back to Earth and Michael Crichton can still write that plague novel.
They probably won't take well to being put in zoos anyway. Tip: don't piss them off.
The many different organisms from all participating partners were all mounted in such trays and then exposed to space on the outside of the ISS for one and a half years.
Credit: © ESA/ROSCOSMOS
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They're alive! Two algae survived 16 months on the exterior of the International Space Station ISS despite extreme temperature fluctuations and the vacuum of space as well as considerable UV and cosmic radiation. That was the astonishing result of an experiment conducted by Dr. Thomas Leya at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI in Potsdam in cooperation with German and international partners. This labor-intensive experiment was part of the large-scale Biology and Mars Experiment (BIOMEX), a project coordinated by Dr. Jean-Pierre de Vera at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin. Dr. Leya himself had isolated the green algal strain CCCryo 101-99 of Sphaerocystis sp. on Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago, and prepared it together with the cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. (CCCryo 213-06), a blue-green alga from Antarctica. CCCryo stands for Culture Collection of Cryophilic Algae. Nostoc sp. and Sphaerocystis sp. are examples of cold-loving, or cryophilic, strains. They have special adaptation strategies to oppose cold and desiccation, allowing them to survive even under extreme conditions.
- SD
Note from the top, the Rockhouse has no problem with Christmas; it's the only time of year to find marzipan.
The life from extraterrestrial sources is a theological gold mine since it brings more to the War on Christmas than a year of righteous indignation from Richard Dawkins. If the creature made in God's image is actually on some other planet, a whole lot of religious teaching goes up in smoke.
For Christianity, it probably doesn't poof since Jesus was the Son of God but I don't believe God was identified in any kind of way so he could have been making beings of that nature on every planet he liked but the existence of them wouldn't really rip Christianity to shreds unless it's hard-core fundamental.
There's no need to reprise the Rockhouse theology since it's so generic it fits anything. It's the considerations for those most aligned with this or that philosophy which are interesting because the idea life came from somewhere else won't wash too well when they're taught God created us.
The theology is one part of the sci fi but the other part is wtf do you mean life can travel through space. If that's true then it can bring some type of disease which mysteriously affects humans and Michael Crichton can go to town with a plague novel.
This one is thin since it assumes all life hinges on DNA but that kind of terracentric thinking will never do. Maybe these creatures don't reproduce because they have the ability to regenerate any part of themselves which gets damaged and they live forever. They have a form of asexual reproduction since any time they need more of themselves they can whack off a pod and it will generate another creature ... zero DNA.
Ed: what if the creature can't infect us but it spews some poisonous gas into the atmosphere?
Humans do that already, mate. You could ask them about that in Bhopal but they're all dead.
Seeing the algae survive there means it can can survive almost anywhere so that gives a great boost to visiting Enceladus to discover what's in its underground seas. (Ithaka: NASA: Potentially Hospitable Enceladus)
Ed: yeah, sure. Then bring it back to Earth and Michael Crichton can still write that plague novel.
They probably won't take well to being put in zoos anyway. Tip: don't piss them off.
4 comments:
Doesnt Snowden tell us that life came from space also but presently life in inner earth at under the earth mantle
If you mean Edward Snowden, I think you're calling on the wrong spaceship since I haven't heard him say that.
I've said sometimes the Mothmen live underground and come out via portals at the Poles but (sob) I ain't famous. Can you believe that!
Google Snowden Alien interviews.
They may or not be real but they are amusing
I see it now plus a follow-up. Finally ... fake news which is entertaining.
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