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#362540
Phönix
You fail biology.
12/15/2007 4:45:42 PM
#362543
Illuminatalie
"Crystals are very much alive but, as yet we don't completely understand their sacred language of geometric light"
I saw an episode where Spock mind melded with silicon based life. It was a totally excellent dramatic performance.
12/15/2007 4:49:16 PM
#362545
Moordryd
Stop smoking those crystals, dude!
12/15/2007 4:49:47 PM
#362556
I suppose that the ceramic eagle that I made my mother is actually alive then! Hopefully it won't fly away -- it took me forever to make. Mmm earthenware.
12/15/2007 4:57:05 PM
#362560
LabRat
Hey! Who turned on the X-files music?
12/15/2007 5:00:48 PM
#362562
Vampirehummingbird
Damn! I murdered a whole civilization of snowflakes today.
12/15/2007 5:01:49 PM
#362565
cool cats
No, you've been watching to many old horror/sci-fi films.
12/15/2007 5:03:07 PM
#362566
davros
CC that was a cool movie
bring on the salt water
12/15/2007 5:05:02 PM
#362567
cui bono
"carbon was said to be the only living atom on the Earth"
How much "wrong" can you fit in 1 sentence.
12/15/2007 5:05:27 PM
#362568
JD
If anything happens to the "queen atom" we could be looking at a serious case of Helvettica here...
12/15/2007 5:06:05 PM
#362576
Wet Walnuts
Atoms aren't living things, dumbass.
12/15/2007 5:11:12 PM
#362580
NecroVMX
Not fundie, just stupid.
12/15/2007 5:14:12 PM
#362603
They're inorganic material, did you miss physics class or you're plainly stupid?
12/15/2007 5:24:27 PM
#362627
BlackMageJ
Well duh. Haven't you played Command & Conquer? That Tiberium is some seriously weird stuff (and was actually inspired by the movie cool cats posted)
12/15/2007 5:44:24 PM
#362630
apYrs
not fundie just loopy.
It may be possible for silicon to form a basis for life (though thermodynamically difficult), but wtf is this bimboy whittering about: "sacred language of geometric light"
SHEEITTT!
12/15/2007 5:45:52 PM
#362649
Honker Muddlefoot
Goofy New Age-y crap. Not sure if it counts as "assertion of dumb-ass beliefs with a side of un-science" or "fundamentalist fruitballism".
12/15/2007 6:03:14 PM
#362664
Madame Scarlet
Uh... no, moron. Carbon is not alive. At all. No reputable scientists say that carbon is alive. It is, however, necessary for organic components (which themselves are not necessarily alive), which happen to be what make up life.
12/15/2007 6:31:39 PM
#362671
Brian X
To the extent that any of this is true, siloxane chemistry has enough in common with carbon chain chemistry that under certain conditions (generally very, very hot) silicon-based life could be sustained. Isaac Asimov wrote an article about it in the early 80s, and there's probably been a bit of theoretical work done on it since. To the extent that any of this is even remotely accurate, yes, silicon-based life might be possible.
But I'm pretty sure the rest of this is argumentum ex culo. (All known life on Earth is carbon-based, even the deep-sea extremophiles, which are about exotic as it gets on this planet.)
12/15/2007 6:43:38 PM
#362688
Osiris
Wiccian fundies fail at chemistry.
12/15/2007 7:02:30 PM
#362735
Illuminatalie
Good point, JD.
12/15/2007 7:48:04 PM
#362744
Morninglight
*bangs head*
Fuckwits like this give us pagans with an interest in crystals a bad name.
12/15/2007 7:56:09 PM
#362745
Pandadeist
Well actually, this is quite a debate. What is the definition of life? The ability to reproduce itself. Crystals reproduce themselves, so arguably, they could be life in a sense.
12/15/2007 7:58:00 PM
#362746
Ponder
"Sacred language of geometric light"
I don't know why, but that statement sends me into fits of giggles. It's just... so ridiculous.
Life on earth is Carbon-BASED. Meaning carbon is essential, but we aren't walking diamonds. On the same note, it is theoretically possible to have silica-BASED life, but no such things exist. Crystals are just highly ordered structures, not living entities.
And cool cats: You win, sir. You have won my heart and mind, and I will follow you to hell and back for your glorious posting of that image. Thank you.
12/15/2007 7:58:47 PM
#362758
Jake Steel
errr.... I suppose it is posable that there could be a silicon based life form (somewhere), but to make the generalization that all silicon is now alive and that all crystals are made from silicon is quite a leap. I'm not even going to get started on language.
12/15/2007 8:22:46 PM
#362772
flipper
Sounds like a bad info-mercial come-on!
12/15/2007 8:45:03 PM
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