Kulapavana 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2004 Source: KSL News Published: May 31, 2004 Author: Ed Yeates Scientists Finding Strange Life Forms in Great Salt Lake May. 31, 2004 Ed Yeates Reporting A consortium of scientists, including a Utah biologist, say some weird creatures found in the Great Salt Lake might help unravel some of the mysteries on Mars. Though the Great Salt Lake is a dead sea - drying up even more this year from years of drought - it's far from dead. On the northern arm of the lake microbiologists from Westminster College in Salt Lake have been taking samples of water. With levels now at a 30-year low, the salt in portions of the shrinking lake has reached saturation levels ten times the salinity of seawater. Westminster, the University of Maryland and George Mason University are not only finding life where life shouldn't exist, but life, perhaps like nothing of this earth. Instead of the rods, spheres and spiral shapes microbiologists are familiar with, they're seeing organisms shaped like pyramids, triangles, squares and crescents. Dr. Bonnie Baxter, Westminster College Microbiologist: "Completely novel sequences that don't match up with anything in the databases. And one of our genome guys who was taking a look at these said this looks like alien DNA. It doesn't match anything we have on earth." Dr. Baxter and her colleagues say, why not believe that what's happening to the Great Salt Lake right now, at one time happened on the planet Mars. The Mars Rover uncovered what appears to be a very large dried up lake bed similar to the Great Basin. What's gradually happening to our own dead sea could have happened on the red planet a long, long time ago. If so, the unique pinkish organisms inside salt crystals from dried up portions of our own lake might be inside similar salt formations on Mars. Baxter: "There was a group of scientists a couple of years ago who actually got some organisms out of some 250-million year old formations and were able to bring them back to life." Inside Westminster's lab, Dr. Bonnie Baxter and her team can easily revive the organisms inside the Salt Lake crystals. The Great Salt Lake scientific consortium would love to see what might happen now if you could bring pieces of salt formations from Mars back to earth. And it's not just the mysteries of Mars. These unusual organisms which survive extremes of heat, cold, acidity, pressure, radiation and salinity might also hold secrets for the development of new drugs. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theist 1 Report post Posted June 4, 2004 The soul can manifest anywhere. They are inching towards what Prabhupada long since told us. The soul can live anywhere even on the sun planet. Although I don't see them doing their style of research there anytime soon. I remember something about them finding lifeforms where they didn't expect any in the sea next to some underwater volcanic vents. Not too long ago the dominant position that we heard is that man is alone in the universe. Never hear that anymore. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted June 4, 2004 not intelligent or complex lifeforms. The lifeforms described in the puranas that come from the sun are supposedly intelligent and superior to man. I find the simple lifeforms inhabiting the sun to be much more plausible than complex lifeforms. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kulapavana 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2004 bodies of living entities inhabiting Sun are made of fire or plasma. actually fire is a very complex physical phenomenon, not yet fully understood by science. plasma is even more intriguing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ancient_paztriot 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2004 Theist, Kulapavana, someone… So do the scientist now accept that their own bodies are filled with different living individuals? An obvious place to look? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theist 1 Report post Posted June 5, 2004 Ever seen any pictures of dust mites that creep over our skin living on dead cells? Creepy man. But they don't understand or accept the transcendentalists explanation of what makes up the difference between a living mite and a dead cell. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted June 5, 2004 that different organisms and lifeforms live in people's bodies. Such as E. Coli and other symbiotic and parasitic organisms. Some of them are needed for our own survival. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kulapavana 0 Report post Posted June 7, 2004 "So do the scientist now accept that their own bodies are filled with different living individuals?" I would not say that. but their ideas regarding life in general are becoming more broad. silicon (as oposed to carbon) based bodies are seen as a definite possibility on other planets. some science fiction writers (but not mainstream science) think plasma based bodies are possible. anyway, their opinions are hardly relevant for us: their idea of life is still very primitive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
