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Life is amazing. To think we're alone in this universe (or any of the universes for that matter ) is laughable, quite honestly.
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Originally Posted by AntonLaVey
Originally Posted by Hyper Cutter
multicelluar, as in, more complicated than merely single celled.
if all this time we believed that only single celled organisms can exist without a need for oxygen, and we find that it is also possible for multicellular organisms (of the scale of humans, let's say) can also survive without oxygen, then it leaves the possibility open for other planets to house other civilizations/societies/ect.
that's what the article was trying to say.
the article was not trying to say that life was only just ow discovered to exist independent of oxygen. as someone just mentioned, cyanobacteria, independent of oxygen itself, produced oxygen that would eventually be depended on by other organisms. it's just that now organisms of the multicellular kind have been found to also exist independent of oxygyen.
I understand this, what I don't get is the conclusion that was drawn from this discovery. They haven't found unicellular organisms on other planets to begin with, what makes them think a multicellular anaerobe holds any significance. Why does the discovery of a multicellular anerobe hold more significance than the fact that unicellular anaerobes exist on our planet..
A multicellular anaerobe is probably just a missing link between the evolution from unicellular to multicellular.
Originally Posted by AntonLaVey
Originally Posted by nawlinsjunkie
this is why our public education is one of the worst in the worldOriginally Posted by AntonLaVey
Originally Posted by ChiefWiggum
Are you serious??? LMAO!! There are plenty of anaerobic organisms.
WORD, I was like....this is the conclusion they came to.people need to retake middle school biology
Granted he did say multicellular....but I fail to see how this means aliens exist. You'd be surprised how many strange prehistoric creatures that have been discovered in uninhabitable places on earth (especially on the ocean floor).....something like 80 something percent of the ocean is undiscovered.
I may be wrong but didn't life precede oxygen?
Originally Posted by rpjgator
Originally Posted by rpjgator
You should read up on this theory that some evolutionist are pushing to help understand the creation of life on earth. I think its called the "RNA world", basically it states that life arose not from DNA or protein but from a RNA like structure that facilitated both catalytic and storing funtions. This after some thought is not far fetched as some enzymes are in fact RNA. But over time RNA evolved to incorporate DNA for larger storage and protein for more catalytic functions. As for the article i wonder how they identified the organism as an animal without the presence of 16s mitochondria RNA which is usually the standard in classification.Originally Posted by tml09
anaerobic bacteria
Some perspective:
Life had to start from somewhere. We obviously started with something much smaller and much less complicated. It's possible that we come from bacteria from any of the planets in our solar system, or even planets out side of it. I think the scientific name is called 'panspermia', so it's certainly possible that we come from whatever's out there, and the life we're looking for is actually what spawned us. Life here is nothing special: we come from the most common elements in the Universe. Maybe if we were made of tungesten we'd be unique, but we're made of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen, and so is the Universe. We can see, talk, hear, and study. We are, so to speak, the Universe's way of finding out about itself. We are as much a part of it as it is a part of us.
food for thought: The life we evolved from had DNA. Life as we know it is DNA. Sure, if we find life somewhere else it'll be groundbreaking, but it's still like us. What if there's life out there that doesn't have that structure, DNA, and is coded with something completely different? I think that would be mind boggling.
E. coli use aerobic respiration. They can survive using anaerobic respiration because they are facultative anaerobes, but are not fully anaerobic dependent organisms like Clostridium species.Originally Posted by kobe82410
Originally Posted by DaNiKeRhiNo
Nice, that also throws the theory regarding how you need water to support life out of the window. Very interesting.
it doesnt prove that it all.
it just proves that that organism doesn't need oxygen to perform respiration, so it will go though a less complex version of cellular respiration called glycolysis, instead of going though the electron transport chain. and this we have known for a while now,
but it is interesting to see an animal having it. but we've known of many anaerobic organisms, such as yeast and e. coli.
People please remember life before atmospheric O2 not oxygen the element itself. That came before life and is part of all living organisms.Originally Posted by nawlinsjunkie
Originally Posted by AntonLaVey
Originally Posted by nawlinsjunkie
this is why our public education is one of the worst in the worldOriginally Posted by AntonLaVey
Originally Posted by ChiefWiggum
Are you serious??? LMAO!! There are plenty of anaerobic organisms.
WORD, I was like....this is the conclusion they came to.people need to retake middle school biology
Granted he did say multicellular....but I fail to see how this means aliens exist. You'd be surprised how many strange prehistoric creatures that have been discovered in uninhabitable places on earth (especially on the ocean floor).....something like 80 something percent of the ocean is undiscovered.
I may be wrong but didn't life precede oxygen?
yea there was life way before there was oxygen.
Originally Posted by General Johnson
Originally Posted by sherwin100s
Originally Posted by General Johnson
Trips me out how people assume that all life must live/survive the way we do. Life is everywhere. It's behind you looking at you right now and you can't even see it.
It's on the Sun and all the planets in this solar system. Just because we can't see or recognize it, doesn't mean it is nonexistent.Like OMG!
Totally!
Originally Posted by DipsetGeneral
LEt's wait and see more animas like this....