On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 02:44:52PM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2025-01-19 2:15 p.m., Frank Leonhardt via cctalk
wrote:
While we're at it, biological science had
clearly been unable to create
life. Not even a single cell. And I've no reason to believe we're about
to see a breakthrough it that either.
You have not seen the stuff way behind in my fridge. :)
I do suspect that the place behind your fridge didn't exactly start
as utterly sterizilied and guaranteed to be devoid of life ;-)
That is true, the source code for life was lost a few
billion years ago.
Life is based on carbon compounds (sorry Horta) as mechanical machines.
FREE OXYGEN , I think kills any kind of retro life should it happen.
Lots of room for computer experimentation there.
Well, it's called the "Oxygen Catastrophe" for reasons.
Kind regards,
Alex.
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