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Started by Mesozoic Mister Nigel, November 25, 2016, 09:38:25 PM

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Trivial

Don't eat brains or you'll catch the prions.

Sexy Octopus of the Next Noosphere Horde

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on December 03, 2016, 02:18:42 AM
Don't eat brains or you'll catch the prions.

A good rule for the colony ships.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Trivial

Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 03, 2016, 05:39:22 AM
Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on December 03, 2016, 02:18:42 AM
Don't eat brains or you'll catch the prions.

A good rule for the colony ships.

Probably up there with having sex with aliens, they might mate like anglerfish. 
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Q. G. Pennyworth

Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on December 03, 2016, 03:30:59 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 03, 2016, 05:39:22 AM
Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on December 03, 2016, 02:18:42 AM
Don't eat brains or you'll catch the prions.

A good rule for the colony ships.

Probably up there with having sex with aliens, they might mate like anglerfish.

Still worth it.

Trivial

I'd guess that any habitable planet will have life.  Our atmosphere will react with about anything including itself, it needs life to maintain the levels of oxygen.  Any landing we make will may alter any sort of evolutionary course.  Just wondering if we'd even care about future possible lifeforms.  Maybe it'd depend on how awesome we make space stations.
Sexy Octopus of the Next Noosphere Horde

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on December 05, 2016, 03:43:29 PM
I'd guess that any habitable planet will have life.  Our atmosphere will react with about anything including itself, it needs life to maintain the levels of oxygen.  Any landing we make will may alter any sort of evolutionary course.  Just wondering if we'd even care about future possible lifeforms.  Maybe it'd depend on how awesome we make space stations.

Yes, due to the nature of planetary oxygen production, if it's habitable it will have life.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on December 05, 2016, 03:43:29 PM
I'd guess that any habitable planet will have life.  Our atmosphere will react with about anything including itself, it needs life to maintain the levels of oxygen.  Any landing we make will may alter any sort of evolutionary course.  Just wondering if we'd even care about future possible lifeforms.  Maybe it'd depend on how awesome we make space stations.

How do you define "habitable"? Because the presence of oxygen and earth-like temperatures doesn't necessarily guarantee the existence of any of the other building blocks of life (even though bacteria did play an enormous part in providing out own atmosphere with free elemental oxygen)
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Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on December 02, 2016, 09:25:15 PM
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So some people have genes that make these damn things.

Everyone does, pr else they wpuldn't work. What some people don't have is a means of folding the protein into other configurations
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


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It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


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Trivial

Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 09, 2016, 05:56:00 PM
Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on December 05, 2016, 03:43:29 PM
I'd guess that any habitable planet will have life.  Our atmosphere will react with about anything including itself, it needs life to maintain the levels of oxygen.  Any landing we make will may alter any sort of evolutionary course.  Just wondering if we'd even care about future possible lifeforms.  Maybe it'd depend on how awesome we make space stations.

How do you define "habitable"? Because the presence of oxygen and earth-like temperatures doesn't necessarily guarantee the existence of any of the other building blocks of life (even though bacteria did play an enormous part in providing out own atmosphere with free elemental oxygen)

Trying to think of scenarios where oxygen would stick around.  Oxygen and noble gas combo? 
Sexy Octopus of the Next Noosphere Horde

There are more nipples in the world than people.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

You're really gonna need life of some sort to get physiologically relevant quantities of atmospheric oxygen.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

I mean, there is also the hypothetical possibility of high-surface-titanium planets, but the likelihood of a high-surface-titanium planet being otherwise inhabitable seems low.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Don Coyote

Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 02, 2016, 08:55:23 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 02, 2016, 08:24:11 PM
Okay so now I'm freaked the fuck out about this prions shit. I think we may owe it to the world to spread mass-panic

Already happened; remember Mad Cow Disease?

Literally why I tell people cannibalism is bad.

minuspace

Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on December 09, 2016, 06:22:48 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 09, 2016, 05:56:00 PM
Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on December 05, 2016, 03:43:29 PM
I'd guess that any habitable planet will have life.  Our atmosphere will react with about anything including itself, it needs life to maintain the levels of oxygen.  Any landing we make will may alter any sort of evolutionary course.  Just wondering if we'd even care about future possible lifeforms.  Maybe it'd depend on how awesome we make space stations.

How do you define "habitable"? Because the presence of oxygen and earth-like temperatures doesn't necessarily guarantee the existence of any of the other building blocks of life (even though bacteria did play an enormous part in providing out own atmosphere with free elemental oxygen)

Trying to think of scenarios where oxygen would stick around.  Oxygen and noble gas combo?
If a noble gas /had/ to share electrons with something, it would probably choose oxygen.  Otherwise, I think O2 is a decent scenario, or we could lock it in carbon and send in oxygen releasing "plants" prior to arrival.  Worst case scenario, we get it from water by electrolysis.  Oxygen rules.