Is DNA a universal constant?

[DrWhat]

http://theexodusdecoded.com/index1.jsp

However it is not my intention to promote this particular documentary.

[winkle]

The documentary "The Exodus Decoded", which is quite interesting, was only released in the US late last year. But that shouldn't stop some people seeing it a few years ago and giving it a pasting.

could be that some people know everything

could be that some people know nothing

definitely a crap shoot though

taht's kdnia tckay

i don't wrae a wtcah so it may hvae been ltae last yaer taht i saw it

[Jim Williams]

No that's not the self awareness I speak of. I mean humans are aware of their own deaths and are one of the few species that goes around causing the death of their own kind. Self awareness includes more than that however. Humans will also go out of their ways to save the life of others of the species, even at the sacrifice of themselves. Social animals have warning signs to other members all over the place, but unlike humans when the time to be eaten comes, every other animal than rather man is on its own.

[winkle]

Humans will also go out of their ways to save the life of others of the species

there are some animals that go beyond that and save humans
i saw a survey where people were ask if a person was drowning and their dog was drowning what would they do
most said they would save their dog first then save the person
perhaps if we praise ourselves enough we may axially believe that we are more than we are
maybe everyone could be a pope
the truth is we are polluting this world not only for ourselves but for our children and every other creature that lives on it
if that is the end product of self awareness it's not very impressive
self aware in my opinion would preclude the idea of destroying your own environment
it may be that we are nothing more than a passing short term pest

Humans will also go out of their ways to save the life of others of the species, even at the sacrifice of themselves

you mean like this
i really liked the poster boy for self awareness the one guy wanting to get a picture before he left

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/kansas-sho ... 0000000001



if man is such a shelfware noble creature why is it that in this country we have 3,000,000 people in prison and that number only because we don't have enough prisons to warehouse any more

let's not speak of the millions around the world that starve each year

man may be a to self aware like on the far side of self centered

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_cognition

reminds me of a song from years ago i believe it was called beautiful dreamer

ok your turn ovyyus

[ovyyus]

OK then, might as well say this.

eny parsun cun chery-puck demselfers inta eny pint uf vuw

Dumb is the new slick :D

[winkle]

:)

[Jim Williams]

A small moon of either Saturn or Jupiter, I can't remember which, has been found to contain hydrocarbons, the basic building blocks of life. It has been concluded that hydrocarbons are a great deal more common throughout the solar system than originally thought. What kind of life could these building blocks be building that would other than DNA based life? I'm leaving this thread to see first what NASA is upto on Mars. Maybe NASA is looking for DNA, I don't know. How else are they going to know wheather they have found life without being there.

[Jim Williams]

Saturn

[DrWhat]

Titan

[Jim Williams]

Hyperion

[Jim Williams]

The Cassini spacecraft examines Hyperion, finds hydrocarbons www.nasa.gov

[DrWhat]

Jim, You are 100% correct re the report. Titan too does have hydrocarbons in it's upper atmosphere.

http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/ ... 9titan.htm

[winkle]

if they get to close to those hydrocarbons with their rocket engine they might find burnt to a crisp what used to be life

perhaps they could schedule a landing on the 4th of July

it would make a heck of a fireworks display

[Jim Williams]

Dr What

Thank you for your link. I think Titan, like Europa, should be a prime target for looking for life itself. I found Hyperion interesting because it is so small to still have hydrocarbons, speaking of how common hydrocarbons may be in our solar system, not to mention other solar systems. I remember reading somewhere comets actually have amino acids in their tails.

The Mars probe to the ice cap currently scheduled shows NASA is focused on finding life. Again I wonder if life is found how close would it be to the DNA based life we find on Earth? We may need wait until this found life is brought back to Earth.

winkle

Think of all that methane and lightning strikes on the outer planets. What a little oxygen could do.

[winkle]

wouldn't it be fun if DNA was found on some other planet or moon and everyone got all excited only to find out it had been blasted from the earth by a large meteor