scientist develops life-like cells composed of metals, not carbons...

Another step in our undoing.

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Have scientists created non-carbon based 'life'?

whats to say they are wrong. Most scientist know at the atomic level even organic molecules act like machines... so who is to say you cant make a machine act like life??.


The only problem i see with this is that the bonds within metal are very different then the covalent bonds in carbon based organisms...

i would say that the ease of electron transfer within metallic bonds would make a metal based organism evolve very fast if it exsits

after the singularity we can all become transformers. soooo coool! ;-p

This is pretty cool but way far from what the title claims. Its really just a metalic membrane, no DNA or organelles. Make that and ill be impressed.

Originally Posted by PbHash

This is pretty cool but way far from what the title claims. Its really just a metalic membrane, no DNA or organelles. Make that and ill be impressed.

Why dose DNA mean anything to you? Truly open mined people know that RNA/DNA are only important because it makes up what we know as life..



who says we can not create another animal kingdom that dose not involve It...... Why can something not be classified as life just because it dose not follow the normal way of thinking.

Originally Posted by RyanTheRhino

Why dose DNA mean anything to you? Truly open mined people know that RNA/DNA are only important because it makes up what we know as life..



who says we can not create another animal kingdom that dose not involve It...... Why can something not be classified as life just because it dose not follow the normal way of thinking.

Ok, I was being lazy, by DNA I meant a coding mechanism to guide the cells activity. For life to be viable, it needs to be able take potential energy/energy from the environment and use it or store it. Or like a virus, have a host do it. If it does not take from its environment then how can it replicate. These are basically metalic bubbles that have a semi-permiable membrane.

Now don't get me wrong this is a cool article is cool but I would like to see more before I get really hopeful that this could become life.

Originally Posted by PbHash

Ok, I was being lazy, by DNA I meant a coding mechanism to guide the cells activity. For life to be viable, it needs to be able take potential energy/energy from the environment and use it or store it. Or like a virus, have a host do it. If it does not take from its environment then how can it replicate. These are basically metalic bubbles that have a semi-permiable membrane.

Now don't get me wrong this is a cool article is cool but I would like to see more before I get really hopeful that this could become life.

read article again

Even more compelling, some of the iCHELLs are being equipped with the ability to photosynthesize. The process is still rudimentary, but by linking some oxide molecules to light sensitive dyes, the team has constructed a membrane that splits water into hydrogen ions, electrons and oxygen when illuminated — which is how photosynthesis begins in real cells.