Comments on: The line between life and not-life https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/13/the-line-between-life-and-not/ Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:58:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: hoary puccoon https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/13/the-line-between-life-and-not/#comment-509553 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:58:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/13/the-line-between-life-and-not/#comment-509553 Andre Pineda @ 3–

You appear to have rather low standards for what constitutes sensationalism.

The only thing I found sensational was the fact that very simple molecules can display behavior. Using obscure terms instead of plain words like food and reproduction would, in my opinion, have been unnecessary obfuscation.

]]> By: Tasha https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/13/the-line-between-life-and-not/#comment-509552 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:36:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/13/the-line-between-life-and-not/#comment-509552 Actually Andrea, when a cell divides that is replication. it literally makes a second set of cell parts and splits into two cells that each have as much stuff as the one cell they came from. I’m not a scientist, so I can’t explain it better, but I do remember that lecture in High School Biology. Cell division is pretty interesting.

]]> By: André Pineda https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/13/the-line-between-life-and-not/#comment-509551 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:15:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/13/the-line-between-life-and-not/#comment-509551 I feel like he oversold this quite a bit, calling whatever he was using “food” and calling division “replication” when there didn’t seem to be anything replicating. It’s definitely an interesting topic, but I wish he had been a little bit less sensationalist about it.

]]> By: Achrachno https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/13/the-line-between-life-and-not/#comment-509550 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:33:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/13/the-line-between-life-and-not/#comment-509550 The Tea Party and the Republicans would benefit from seeing this. Might shake their world, just a little.

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/13/the-line-between-life-and-not/#comment-509549 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:14:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/13/the-line-between-life-and-not/#comment-509549 The Tea Party and the Republicans are on the not-life side of the line, right?

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