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Postby David Horn » Jan 9, 2006 @ 1:34am

Crosswind technique: "Using your peripheral vision, react to body movements, gasps, groans, and shouts from the other side of the cockpit, and always remember that it's better to be lucky than good."
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Postby James S » Mar 4, 2006 @ 5:58am

NewScientist has this story as their cover story including new journal publications that show these cells divide and are thus living. Yet again without any DNA. And about half the size of red blood cells.
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Postby Blade Runner » Mar 4, 2006 @ 8:56pm

No, I've never seen that, I've never seen anyone drive their garbage out to the curb and bang the hell out of it with a stick. No, I've never seen that.
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Postby Blade Runner » Mar 5, 2006 @ 6:27am

Something out of our senses or already known images.
No, I've never seen that, I've never seen anyone drive their garbage out to the curb and bang the hell out of it with a stick. No, I've never seen that.
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Postby David Horn » Mar 6, 2006 @ 12:21am

One of the microbiologists at Leeds looked at them. His opinion is that they're nothing more than fat globules, which can form through normal chemical reactions in organic materials. He can't see any DNA or other cell structures in them.

His verdict: totally inconclusive.
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Postby James S » Mar 6, 2006 @ 2:49am

Well of course they're fat globules, that's what cell walls are made of, phospholipids, fatty carbohydrates.

Personally, I think that if aliens came today and announced themselves to all, gave us nifty technology and asked to be my neighbour I doubt that anything significant would happen. The world wouldn't simultaneously drop their jaws, no one would gasp, people would still practice all religions. Perspectives and paradigms would not change much if at all.

This article is frontpage news on a worldwide publication... I don't see convenience stores being robbed and rioting, or religions collapsing. It isn't firm proof of other life, but it's something that is quite worrisome on an immunological and biological level if nothing else, which is quite earth shattering for our sciences. A complex structured compound that replicates without DNA. A new form of life, extraterrestial or not.
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