Timeline for Food sources for engineered spaceborne life forms
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| May 23, 2017 at 14:19 | comment | added | Joe Kissling | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 14:15 | comment | added | Raditz_35 | If my short time in this forum told me anything than that your answer would be read exactly the way I suggested - which is why I had to point it out. I think you should absolutely point out how inefficient the approach would really be | |
| May 23, 2017 at 14:13 | comment | added | Joe Kissling | @Raditz_35 not what I am suggesting at all. I'm suggesting that if you are going to engineer a life form to live in the void, macroscopic or microscopic, then you should look to comets as sources of nutrients. For energy you ar gong to have to look elsewhere. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 13:54 | comment | added | Raditz_35 | Link or no link, I don't think you would recommend that a hungry person on earth should simply lick his mobile phone because the bacteria on top of it contain some degree of amino acids? | |
| May 23, 2017 at 13:40 | comment | added | Joe Kissling | @Raditz_35 That's what the link is for. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 13:32 | comment | added | Raditz_35 | So let's agree to disagree on the word "likely". The thing is your answer could be misleading to someone who doesn't know much about stuff in general. The couple of amino acids are not a viable food source anyhow unless we are talking microbes here | |
| May 23, 2017 at 13:22 | comment | added | Joe Kissling | @Raditz_35 the distance between comets is not of importance to the question. In case you are concerned, I am well aware that they are separated by great distances. The question was asking for sources if nutrients that an artificial life form could make use of, which in that case comets are rich in them. And while not loaded in protein per say, the precursors to them are found on the surface. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 8:45 | comment | added | Raditz_35 | So do you know how far apart comets are and that they are not giant chunks of protein ready to be eaten? | |
| May 2, 2017 at 0:03 | history | edited | Joe Kissling | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 1, 2017 at 23:30 | history | answered | Joe Kissling | CC BY-SA 3.0 |