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Multicellular Organism That Doesn't Use Oxygen Discovered. - Bob Schroeck - 04-07-2010
Article here. While this probably isn't of too much interest to most folk, it's got my attention, because this is the first real example of "life as we don't know it" to be found -- these creatures apparently branched off the evolutionary tree before oxygen breathing became the in thing for life to do.
ETA: They also branched off before cells acquired mitochondria, which generate energy for the cell using oxygen and sugars -- these critters use a completely different mechanism to the job, once again something that's never been seen in a multicelled organism before.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Epsilon - 04-07-2010
Indeed. This is the closest we have gotten to truly alien life.
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Epsilon
- Sweno - 04-07-2010
I wonder how much of our geneome is similar
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
- robkelk - 04-08-2010
We live in an age of miracles and wonders...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Interesting - - Rev Dark - 04-08-2010
Wonders certainly - Miracles my hairy Canadian backside.
To use a rather more urban patois than I usually do.
It is Science Bitches!
Now for grand lols, check out the snake oil peddler buying add space on the page.
http://www.evolution2100.com/
Yet another twat with a god-did-it agenda.
Check out the bullet points. Can you spot the flaws, it took me about 12 seconds.
- robkelk - 04-08-2010
Quote:Wonders certainly - Miracles my hairy Canadian backside.I guess I should have attributed http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/29/t ... gone-by-2/]the quote...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012