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299 792 458 m·s^−1 6.67384(80)×10−11 m³·kg^−1·s−2 6.626 069 57(29) × 10^−34 J·s 1.054 571 726(47) × 10^−34 J·s 4π × 10^−7 N·A^−2 = 1.256 637 061... × 10^−6 N·A^−2 8.854 187 817... × 10^−12 F·m−1 376.730 313 461... Ω 8.987 551 787... × 109 N·m²·C^−2 1.602 176 565(35) × 10^−19 C 9.274 009 68(20) × 10^−24 J·T^−1 7.748 091 7346(25) × 10^−5 S 12 906.403 7217(42) Ω 4.835 978 70(11) × 10^14 Hz·V−1 2.067 833 758(46) × 10^−15 Wb 5.050 783 53(11) × 10^−27 J·T^−1 25 812.807 4434(84) Ω 5.291 772 1092(17) × 10^−11 m 2.817 940 3267(27) × 10^−15 m 9.109 382 91(40) × 10^−31 kg 1.166 364(5) × 10^−5 GeV^−2 7.297 352 5698(24) × 10^−3 4.359 744 34(19) × 10^−18 J 1.672 621 777(74) × 10^−27 kg 3.636 947 5520(24) × 10^−4 m² s^−1 10 973 731.568 539(55) m^−1 6.652 458 734(13) × 10^−29 m² 0.2223(21) 1.660 538 921(73) × 10^−27 kg 6.022 141 29(27) × 10^23 mol^−1

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Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life

Posted 09-11-2008 at 05:51 PM by Bullet Magnet
False alarm, my doctor said that the state of my gums was merely the result of severe dehydration, so regardless, the orange juice did help. He let me go home after I convinced him that I really did not require supervision just to survive. I find the order at which the symptoms emerged to be perplexing at best.



Anyway, I have interesting news.

Good news, everyone!

Truly artificial life, ie, complex organisation allowing for the processes that make up living organisms, is soon going to be produced from scratch!

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Jack Szostack has produced fatty vesicles that trap nucleic acids, and has stimulated their replication. When combined with a process that can harness energy from external sources and the replication is made autonomous, a truly living protocell will be born, unlike any other being on Earth as we'd share no common ancestor.

Previously synthetic lifeforms have been created, but always using already living cells as a template or starting point. This work creates cells from common organic molecules and could be able to produce genuinely novel life. For all intents and purposes, alien life.
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Wil's Avatar
If we’re going to be wiped out by invading alien life, we might as well create it ourselves. This is a good move.
Posted 09-12-2008 at 02:15 AM by Wil

Havoc's Avatar
Replicators!!!!!
Posted 09-12-2008 at 02:22 AM by Havoc

Wil's Avatar
The kind that make tea, earl grey, hot; or the kind that aren’t biological?
Posted 09-12-2008 at 02:31 AM by Wil

Xavier's Avatar
So basically this guy could not afford Spore so he did that instead?
Posted 09-12-2008 at 06:08 AM by Xavier

Bullet Magnet's Avatar
Artificial life could no more take over the Earth than nanobots. Eventually they would be limited by the build-up of their own waste products, not to mention competition with native life.


If this were not the case, the Earth would have been smothered by bacteria long ago.
Posted 09-12-2008 at 10:18 AM by Bullet Magnet

Wil's Avatar
Bacteria are alien life?
Posted 09-12-2008 at 02:00 PM by Wil

Bullet Magnet's Avatar
No. Bacteria compete with the same native life I was referring to, ie with each other.
Posted 09-12-2008 at 07:19 PM by Bullet Magnet

 

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