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Life Without Liquid; dry life.
Topic Started: Feb 14 2009, 01:16 AM (905 Views)
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I was wondering life could originate without water or any other matter in liquid form. Is there any plausible way cell-like structures or living microscopic grains could arise with no liquid? How would nutrients be passed along without it?

I also got an idea from a japanese monster movie of a creature based on silicon with joints moved by electrical signals passed along microscopic semi-conductor like structures and pressurized gas. They have no liquids at all in their bodies. The problem for this is how would the gas be produced and what processes in its evolution could have produced something like this?
Edited by Toad of Spades, Feb 14 2009, 01:17 AM.
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Crystalline entities, maybe? Or a electrically charged fog?
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The sun of Solaris comes to mind. How about plasma states? And 'pure energy beings'.
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i am not sure it is possible but i am not saying the possibility is impossible.

i would love too see a project based on this.
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the way I see it, a ceel would be a porhous structure that would allow the intake of small molecules which would somehow be converted into energy...

as for an organism, I would think along the lines of a flow of small magneticaly charged spheres constructed of these cells. they would flow in a huge swarm, and act as one organism. to move they would atract themselves to one another in a wave like motion... and move accross a planet's surface.

eh, I'm not exactly a scientist or bioligist, so I don't realy know if that could work...
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ooh, wave-motion... quite interesting...
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A pure energy being is impossible. Dry life is hard to imagine, even if possible I doubt it will be common liquid life is much easier.
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Pure-Energy Entities are not impossible, as ar as we know. Scientists have never quite had a chance to test it, obviously, and we don't know all of the types of energy in existence.
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When I was younger I actually thought up a simple ecosystem with dry life. Their bodies were basically rubbery bubbles (basically a single floating cell) and everything moved around inside them on what was essentially a cytoskeleton. Or ridges, or tubes, or crevices in the 'skin'.... I never could decide on what...

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how about a lifeform that exists on another plane of reality and when interacting with ours is pure-energy?
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Life from pure energy is possible depending on your definition. As for other planes of reality, that's pretty much sci-fi fairy tales for the time being. A few theories have other 'parts of reality' in a way, but honestly, I don't see them working like that.

A life form that is made of Quantum reactions instead of Chemical reactions, now THERE is a possibility. After all, for life you just need a self repeating organized process for the most part. Though, if it is out there, we would never ever recognize it.
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