Coragyps
Member (Idle past 762 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: 11-12-2002
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Message 11 of 30 (62683)
10-24-2003 10:48 PM
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Reply to: Message 10 by sidelined
10-24-2003 10:09 PM
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The only way we'd know for sure we had something alive would be to watch it metabolise and reproduce - if that's even a sufficient definition of "living." I would guess that the "soup" that an experimenter started with would constrain the life that grew out of it to something sort of familiar to a biochemist, but replicating our present (or past) life's workings exactly or even closely seems hugely improbable.
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