Topic awaiting preservation: Plasma lifeforms?

Very much 'out there' but it is in the New Sceintist so..........
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994174

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Physicists have created blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate and communicate - fulfilling most of the traditional requirements for biological cells. Without inherited material they cannot be described as alive, but the researchers believe these curious spheres may offer a radical new explanation for how life began.

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So if I have this right, when a charge is applied to cells they can communicate and replicate and it was some sort of electric storm that started the first life on earth.
So if that's how we started then at some point the cells (we) must have developed or stumbled on a way to store energy to continue to develope independently of the storm.
if that's true then as was suggested in the Matrix, we are little more than batteries....


~We're not here for long, we're here for fun~

Well, batteries store energy, the mitochondria in our cells actually produces it. But yeah, basically.


It's only after we've lost everything...
That we're free to do anything...

Heh heh. We evolved from plasma balls? Cool stuff.
<insert obligatory Max'RollingEyes>

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can preform most of the basic life functions

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Unless an item can preform all the basic life forms, its not alive...

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"The Mystery of Life"
Vol. 841, Ch. 26
"All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu. This is the truth! This is my beleif! ...at least for now." - Chrono Trigger
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The scientists didn't say they had created life but have discovered what may have been a different way for life to have started or the basis for what life could be like under different conditions.

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