A hypothetical

[durangodawood]

Has to be with, since the definition of life is that which is able to reproduce.

That doesnt mean you need special organs for it.

Maybe it reproduces by building more copies of itself, just like we built the first one...?

 

[Justatruthseeker]

That doesnt mean you need special organs for it.

Maybe it reproduces by building more copies of itself, just like we built the first one...?

Lol, a good point, but we have yet to build the first one

And even if we ever do manage to create a microbe, it's a long way from that to something capable of creating itself in the lab. How will it reproduce until then?

 

[durangodawood]

Lol, a good point, but we have yet to build the first one

And even if we ever do manage to create a microbe, it's a long way from that to something capable of creating itself in the lab. How will it reproduce until then?

Well, this thread is called "a hypothetical". So I'm not ashamed to get a little sci-fi.

Who knows what a couple hundred more years will bring? We are currently only at the very beginning of synthetic biology.

 

[Justatruthseeker]

Well, this thread is called "a hypothetical". So I'm not ashamed to get a little sci-fi.

Who knows what a couple hundred more years will bring? We are currently only at the very beginning of synthetic biology.

I have no doubts whatsoever it will bring amazing discoveries, including longevity, the curing of disease, etc.

But I don't see life from non-life ever being accomplished, now or in the future, without the tremendous expenditure of energy. Even evolutions best bet is a past atmosphere filled with tremendous gigantic bolts of lightening. Being an EU supporter, this is the only chance IMO of it ever occurring. Religious ideals set aside for the moment, without electricity there is no chance at all of it ever occurring, being all life uses naturally generated electric currents for movement, and if capable for thought.


Needless to say that the only experiment coming close involved electricity and after 7 days , amino acids came pouring forth.

 

[mzungu]

Well, this thread is called "a hypothetical". So I'm not ashamed to get a little sci-fi.

Who knows what a couple hundred more years will bring? We are currently only at the very beginning of synthetic biology.

Viruses cannot reproduce themselves; they need a host cell to do that for them!