What Kind of Evolution Environment in Some Planet is Needed for Vegetables to Develop Legs, Hands and Big Brains ?
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sci.math - 28 Dec 2006 09:35 GMT Hi,
Q1. What Kind of Evolution Environment in Some Planet is Needed for Vegetables to Develop Legs, Hands and Big Brains ?
Please take a look below copies of my couple articles in sci.physics, sci.astro and sci.med.pathology.
Best Regards,
Hannu Poropudas
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Hi,
Sorry I forget to put the internet addres about Roswell video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQRCmko5cR0
Best Regards,
Hannu
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Hi,
I put below copies of two articles about Roswell autopsy video for comments. These copies are from years 1995 and 1998.
(this video is available in the internet and it is about 17 min long, Hint: Use Google search machine and select search words Roswell autopsy, and select also images)
Please give your comments about this strange matter !
Best Regards,
Hannu Poropudas
From: c...@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite) Subject: Roswell Alien Autopsy - Pathologist's View Date: 1995/09/16 Message-ID: <43e53u$832@southern.co.nz>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 110261521 organization: Southern InterNet Services newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.skeptic
This article, by an M.D., may have escaped the notice of many readers of the Roswell Alien Autopsy threads so it is reposted here to add to the extensive debate on the recent TV screenings:
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From: Ed Uthman <uth...@domi.net> Newsgroups:sci.med.pathology,sci.med,misc.education.medical, alt.alien.visitors Subject: Fox's "Alien Autopsy" - A Pathologist's View Date: 15 Sep 1995 01:12:20 GMT Organization: Pathanarchy Message-ID: <43ajtk$...@uunews.computize.com>
I have just watched a tape of this very interesting show, but I must say that I have to be a little less charitable than the pathologist commentators on the show. I think it is a hoax, for some of the reasons brought up on the show and other reasons of my own.
1. I agree with the cinematographer whose suspicion was raised when the close-up shots were out of focus. Clearly the camera _could_ focus closely, as in the external shots and shots of the excised "organs" on the table, but where you really needed resolution to figure out the anatomy (the in situ shots), the film was conveniently fuzzy.
2. Any pathologist involved in such a case would be obsessed with documenting the findings. He would be systematically demonstrating findings every step of the way, such as showing how the joints worked, whether the eyelids closed, etc. He should be ordering the cameraman all over the place, but instead the cameraman was totally ignored, like he wasn't there at all. The pathologist acted more like an actor in front of a camera than someone who was cooperating in a photographic documentation session.
3. The prosector used scissors like a tailor, not like a pathologist or surgeon. He held the scissors with thumb and forefinger, whereas pathologists and surgeons put the thumb in one scissors hole and the middle or ring finger in the other. The forefinger is used to steady the scissors further up toward the blades.
4. The way the initial cuts in the skin were made a little too Hollywood-like, too gingerly, like operating on a living patient. Autopsy cuts are deeper and faster.
5. I would expect the skin of a species with a jointed endoskeleton to be elastic, so it could move with and glide over moving joints. When cuts were made in the "alien's" skin, the edges of the skin did not retract from the blade.
6. The most implausible thing of all is that the "alien" just had amorphous lumps of tissue in "her" body cavities. I cannot fathom that an alien who had external organs so much like ours could not have some sort of definitive structural organs internally. And again, the prosectors did not make any attempt to arrange the organs for demonstration to the camera.
7. This of course is outside my area of expertise, but the whole production just did not "look right" for a military documentary of the 1940's. I'm sure an expert in lighting, cinematography, etc. could be a bit more specific. Maybe they should have hired the guy who did Woody Allen's _Zelig_ to give the production a little more technical verisimilitude.
8. And the "period pieces," the wall phone and electric wall clock were just a little too glib, IMHO.
9. Oh, yeah. The body was not propped up on a body block (which goes under the back during the examination of the trunk and under the head for removal of the brain). This is a very basic piece of autopsy equipment, and all pathologists use it.
So, I think it was a really fine effort, worthy even of a Cal Tech prank, but not quite good enough to be believable.
Ed Uthman, MD Pathologist Houston/Richmond, TX, USA
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From: Peter Kazlouski <pete...@erols.com> Subject: INITIAL FINDINGS UPON EXAMINATION AND AUTOPSY OF THE BODY OF AN APPARENT ALIEN CREATURE Date: 1998/04/26 Message-ID: <35432A2D.518E1...@erols.com> X-Deja-AN: 347796371 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: a...@erols.com X-Trace: winter.news.erols.com 893594173 1041 207.172.162.67 (26 Apr 1998 12:36:13 GMT) Organization: Erol's Internet Services Newsgroups: alt.alien.research
EMHP wrote:
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INITIAL FINDINGS UPON EXAMINATION AND AUTOPSY OF THE BODY OF AN APPARENT ALIEN CREATURE
1. External Appearance
This body was observed to be in a state of significant deterioration. It had been preserved with formaldehyde solution but not otherwise dissected.
The cadaver was 44 inches long with a weight of 27 pounds when the preservative solution had been drained.
The external appearance of this cadaver was of a human embryo with an enlarged cranium. Hands and feet were normal. Fingers and toenails had been had been pared. Fingerprints of a swirl-left pattern were observed and taken. All ten fingers and toes were apparent. There was some vestigial webbing between first and second fingers and toes.
Sexual organs appeared to be those of a male. They were in an embryonic state and revealed no evidence of pubescence.
Ears were partially formed, and showed some evidence of surgical intervention. Folds of skin had been drawn out from the surface of the scalp in an apparent attempt to create the impression of a more fully developed ear than was actually present.
Lips were vestigial and the mouth contained no erupted teeth. The nose was also in an incomplete state of growth and had also received surgical intervention, resulting in what appeared to be a very thin a delicate organ.
Eyes were distinguished by extensive surgical intervention. They were almond-shaped and by far the most prominent facial feature. The eyeballs were not matured and appeared to have been sutured with artificial lenses of an unknown type. Because of their extremely unusual condition, dissection of these eyes was not attempted.
2. Dissection
An incision was made from the thorax to the scrotum. The skin was first extended from the fascia and the fascia was observed to be consistent with the appearance of an immature human male. The fascia were then dissected and the internal organs were observed. The position of the heart was observed to be vertical, as would be consistent with a very early fetus, prior to the fourth month. The organ was prominent and was weighed to be 1/70th of the mass of the body. When the organ was dissected it was found that there was direct communication between the two auricles through the formen ovale. The Eustachian valve was observed to be large. A ductus arteriosus was observed to communicate between the pulmonary artery and the descending aorta. This ductus opened into the descending aorta just below the origin of the left subclavian artery.
Alterations in the structure of the circulatory system suggested that this body had been surgically corrected to detach it from placental dependence in an artificial manner. The stomach was opened and found to be free of any food substances. The cardiac orifice was apparently atrophied, although the deterioration of the corpus made this difficult to determine. It is possible that this individual did not eat.
The liver was prominent and it was clear that the blood of the umbilical vein would traverse it before entering the inferior cava. The umbilical vein itself had been severed of its placental crown and returned to the circulatory system by a means that was beyond the scope of this dissection to establish.
The lungs were not developed. There were lateral pouches on either side of the central diverticulum, open through into the pharynx. The larynx was somewhat cartilaginous and the trachea was developed.
It is probable that this individual did not breathe and more than he ate. The means of sustaining life is unknown, if he was ever alive in any practical sense.
The cranium was dissected and it was found that the skull was formed of exceptionally thin and pliant cartilaginous material, appearing to be bone precursor that had been affected in some manner, making it more than usually thin and delicate. The brain itself was extensively and surprisingly formed. There was an unknown cortex superimposed on the forebrain and extending as far back as the fissure of Ralando.
Because of this extraordinary formation it was decided not to pursue dissection of the brain at this time. The organ was extracted and placed in fluid preservation pending further study.
Overall, this corpus presented the appearance of a human embryo of three to four months duration that had been the subject of considerable alteration and modification, some of it obviously surgical. Other modifications, such as that of the brain, were harder to understand. In addition to the alterations, there was the matter of the size of the body and the relatively mature condition of the epidermis and nails. It would appear that this fetus was separated from its mother and brought to a semi-functional state by artificial means.
3. Conclusion
This is a human fetus that has been subjected to forced maturation without normal gestation. Its degree of functionality while living if it ever was alive is unknown.
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SUBJECT AUTOPSY REPORT 2 DATE 7/14/47 COPY ONE OF THREE
INITIAL FINDINGS UPON EXAMINATION AND AUTOPSY OF THE BODY OF AN APPARENT ALIEN CREATURE
1. External Appearance
This body was observed to be in a state of profound deterioration. It had not been preserved but was delivered in a container of rubberized canvas, to which some of the tissue had adhered. The cadaver was 36 inches long with a weight of 8 pounds. The external appearance of this cadaver was not of a human type.
The skin appeared smooth and a dark bluish-gray in color. There was no clothing on the body. There were no genitals and no was of determining sex, if any. The nose consisted of two slits, the mouth was a small opening that did not appear to be supported by an articulated jaw, and there were holes in the position of ears. The cranium was round and large in proportion to the body and the eyes were almond-shaped. The eyes were closed and could not be opened without damaging structures, due to condition of decaying tissue.
Arms and wrists were very thin. The hands displayed a three-digit arrangement without thumb. The arms extended to approximately three inches above the knee. The three fingers extended directly from the wrist, with no palm.
2. Dissection
The body was opened from crotch to chin. A green liquid emerged from the incision. The skin was not backed by fascia, and the bone structure appeared to be a cartilaginous substance of light green-blue color.
Internal organs were observed but their function was unclear. The thoracic and peritoneal cavities communicated and there appeared to be no respiratory system and no stomach. The esophagus was vestigial and dissipated before reaching another organ.
There appeared to be two multi-chambered hearts and it was surmised that body fluid could be pumped rapidly. There was an extensive circulatory system that involved three different types of vein. Some material was extracted from one of these systems and suggested possible waste, leading to the notion that waste may have been exuded through the skin.
The fluid removed from the body was analyzed under the microscope and found to be a vegetable substance, chlorophyll-based. It is possible that photosynthesis was the means of obtaining energy.
The cranium was dissected and it was observed that a ridge of cartilage separated the brain into two completely isolated components. The brain was severely deteriorated, but appeared to be extensively fissured and divided into numerous lobes. Because of the deterioration the degree of bilateralism of the two halves could not be determined with any accuracy.
This cadaver exuded an unusually foul odor.
3. Conclusion
This is not a cadaver of a kind previously observed by or known to this pathologist. It appears to be a form of creature utilizing elements of both the animal and vegetable.
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John Harshman - 28 Dec 2006 16:43 GMT > Hi, > > Q1. What Kind of Evolution Environment in Some Planet is Needed for > Vegetables to Develop Legs, Hands and Big Brains ? "An intellectual carrot? The mind boggles." ------- Scientist whose name I forget, if he ever had one, in the original movie "The Thing" (not the remake).
zolota - 03 Jan 2007 06:43 GMT > Hi, > > Q1. What Kind of Evolution Environment in Some Planet is Needed for > Vegetables to Develop Legs, Hands and Big Brains ? An environment in which vegetables are defined differently from here on Earth. Why in the cosmos would a plant develop legs if, by definition, it is rooted in one spot?
Z
> Please take a look below copies of my couple articles in sci.physics, > sci.astro and sci.med.pathology. [quoted text clipped - 406 lines] > ------REST OF PETER'S ARTICLE (MORE OR LESS NOT ACCEPTABLE?) CUT > AWAY-------------- deowll - 03 Jan 2007 23:34 GMT >> Hi, >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Earth. Why in the cosmos would a plant develop legs if, by definition, it > is rooted in one spot? To get to a better spot. Seeds/fruits have many adaptions to help them do that. A plant might grow something like a bug that went to another location and planted itself.
> Z > [quoted text clipped - 408 lines] >> ------REST OF PETER'S ARTICLE (MORE OR LESS NOT ACCEPTABLE?) CUT >> AWAY-------------- zolota - 04 Jan 2007 08:48 GMT >>> Hi, >>> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > that. A plant might grow something like a bug that went to another > location and planted itself. Then it would no longer be a plant.
Z
John Wilkins - 04 Jan 2007 09:29 GMT > >>> Hi, > >>> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Then it would no longer be a plant. Of course it would. Once a plant, always a plant. Evolving new morphologies and lifecycles doesn't mean it ceases to be part of its clade.
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deowll - 05 Jan 2007 01:02 GMT >>>> Hi, >>>> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Then it would no longer be a plant. It would be a stage in the life cycle of a plant unless you claim seeds aren't plants. Several kinds of seeds do have limited mobility and parts meant to catch wind or even move to help them plant themselves by repeated flexing due to drying and absorbing mositure.
At the present many plants have developed adaptions that use animals to move their seeds so evolution toward seeds and fruits that can move themselves seems to be rather limited but many plants do have seeds that can do a good deal to spread and palnt themselves.
> Z mathematician - 11 Jan 2007 16:34 GMT > >>>> Hi, > >>>> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > seems to be rather limited but many plants do have seeds that can do a good > deal to spread and palnt themselves. I found in a biology school book that
1. Some "algae" ("piilev?" in finnish) and "slime mushroom" ("limasieni" in finnish) are able to move by wriggling ("kiemurrella" in finnish) or by crawling ("ry?mi?" in finnish).
2. The plant called "Mimosa" (beta-Crusis) reacts to touch quite fast. It is measured that impulse moves in their "strainer pipes" even 10 centimeter / second.
(Sorry about my poor english, it is due my poor vocabulary book)
But back to my original question:
Q2. What kind of gravitation environment in some planet could produce 112 centimeter (44 inches) long and 12.25 kg (27 pounds) creature ?
Hannu
deowll - 13 Jan 2007 06:40 GMT deowll wrote:
> >>>> Hi, > >>>> [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > good > deal to spread and palnt themselves. I found in a biology school book that
1. Some "algae" ("piilevä" in finnish) and "slime mushroom" ("limasieni" in finnish) are able to move by wriggling ("kiemurrella" in finnish) or by crawling ("ryömiä" in finnish).
2. The plant called "Mimosa" (beta-Crusis) reacts to touch quite fast. It is measured that impulse moves in their "strainer pipes" even 10 centimeter / second.
(Sorry about my poor english, it is due my poor vocabulary book)
But back to my original question:
Q2. What kind of gravitation environment in some planet could produce 112 centimeter (44 inches) long and 12.25 kg (27 pounds) creature ?
Hannu
(Depending on the build Earth could. Though you might go with .85 g. I think a six year old averages about 42 inches and fifty pounds in North America so you might do the math. If you reduce the gravity much past this I doubt if the place would hold an atmosphere. I'm guessing but I put a decent atmosphere as needing at least .75g though a .50 might be able to hold one for a long time. The low g planets also are going to have their magnetic fields fail and that means more exposure to harmful solar radiation along with less outgassing. to produce atmosphere and oceans. Mars dried out and went way thin on air a long time ago. It does help that it is a little further out from the primary but then less solar energy makes the place colder and provides less energy for plants.)
You have fun now.
mathematician - 19 Jan 2007 11:17 GMT > deowll wrote: > > > [quoted text clipped - 62 lines] > > You have fun now. OK, Sensible gravity could possible be in the range 0.75g to 0.85g.
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Q3. I noticed in Spectrum nonfication book also two microscopic small strange plant algae (they both have chlorophyll particles ) namely
Euglena gracilis and Phagus pyrum
("eye algae") which can also move by moving their "swimming line".
What is even stranger is that these two have also an "eye spot" (spot which senses light) and first have also a "throat blister" and a "beating blister". Strange moving plants exist also here in our Earth ?
Hannu
deowll - 21 Jan 2007 05:31 GMT deowll wrote:
> > > "deowll" <deowll@bellsouth.net> wrote in message > > > news:44Xmh.20376$h_1.10323@bignews6.bellsouth.net... [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] > > You have fun now. OK, Sensible gravity could possible be in the range 0.75g to 0.85g.
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Q3. I noticed in Spectrum nonfication book also two microscopic small strange plant algae (they both have chlorophyll particles ) namely
Euglena gracilis and Phagus pyrum
("eye algae") which can also move by moving their "swimming line".
What is even stranger is that these two have also an "eye spot" (spot which senses light) and first have also a "throat blister" and a "beating blister". Strange moving plants exist also here in our Earth ?
Hannu
Single celled organisms aren't really considered to be metazoon, many celled plants. The line between plants and animals doesn't really exist at this level. They are classified in other ways.
Some euglena can eat and many single celled orgamisms seem to be the result of the genetic material from more than one organism ending up in a single organism. Many contain organules that may have once be seperate organisms. This is a whole other branch of science and no matter what humans think these are still the dominate life forms on earth.
mathematician - 27 Jan 2007 19:42 GMT > deowll wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 102 lines] > This is a whole other branch of science and no matter what humans think > these are still the dominate life forms on earth. I found one reference in references of which I found also one video clip about movements of Euglena gracilis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euglena
Q4. Why these "plants" like Euglena gracilis etc. has not go as far as "The Roswell Creature" (if ever existed) in Evolution here in our Earth ?
Hannu
Chip Flintknapper - 13 Jan 2007 09:55 GMT >>Hi, >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Z So that it could move itself to a better location; for better soil, or better light, or a better water source.
Autotransplantation would not necessarily indicate sentience.
deowll - 19 Jan 2007 04:20 GMT >>>Hi, >>> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Autotransplantation would not necessarily indicate sentience. The problem may be that active transportation consumes a lot of energy and the energy source of plants is solar. That is why I more or less limited my suggestion to something to get the next generation to a new location. You might consider a solar power only car as being like a plant and a fuel using car as being like an animal. Solar power only cars do work but they have to be very frugal with their energy. If they have "batteries" they can charge them during the day and use the energy on demand.
A mobile plant would certainly be able to store energy for later use unless it ran on stored energy only but that implies something like the mobile seeds I first suggested.
Matt - 19 Jan 2007 21:27 GMT > > Hi, > > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Z To get to the other side?
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Matt
zolota - 22 Jan 2007 08:38 GMT >> > Hi, >> > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Matt As in "why did the chicken cross the road"?
Questions about how species on other planets would be parallel to those Earth as described in Science fiction are usually bovine excretia. I remember one SF story in which the dominant/intellegent species was from the family Bovidae and, despite the intellegence to construct interstellar vehicles, was prone to impulsive decisions like a rodeo bull would make.
Plants are by definition the life forms that on planet earth use roots to establish a permanent place to live as adults and from which they send their seeds on the currents of water and wind. To speculate about mobile plants is crap, it's like wondering about the life of vegetarian lions or horses that can fly.
Z
John Wilkins - 22 Jan 2007 10:14 GMT > >> > Hi, > >> > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > crap, it's like wondering about the life of vegetarian lions or horses that > can fly. Strictly speaking, plants are by definition any organism with chloroplasts that evolved directly from the last common ancestor of any two arbitrary modern plants.
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John Harshman - 22 Jan 2007 16:32 GMT >>>>>Hi, >>>>> [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > chloroplasts that evolved directly from the last common ancestor of any > two arbitrary modern plants. Strictly speaking, why would it need chloroplasts to be considered a plant? Wouldn't descent from the last common ancestor be sufficient? And don't some parasitic plants lack chloroplasts? Don't you be mixing historical and descriptive criteria; makes for bad taxonomy.
John Wilkins - 23 Jan 2007 05:37 GMT > >>>>>Hi, > >>>>> [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > don't some parasitic plants lack chloroplasts? Don't you be mixing > historical and descriptive criteria; makes for bad taxonomy. Well, I suppose that cholorplasts could be secondarily lost, although I don't know how the organisms would get their energy. Parasitism?
 Signature John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts "He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."
John Harshman - 23 Jan 2007 15:43 GMT >>>>>>>Hi, >>>>>>> [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > Well, I suppose that cholorplasts could be secondarily lost, although I > don't know how the organisms would get their energy. Parasitism? There are quite a few parasitic plants that don't photosynthesize at all. I don't know if they have non-fuctional chloroplasts or have lost them altogether.
John Harshman - 23 Jan 2007 17:57 GMT >>>>>>>>Hi, >>>>>>>> [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > all. I don't know if they have non-fuctional chloroplasts or have lost > them altogether. Apparently, no group yet studied has lost them completely. It's really very cool. Read this:
http://www.science.siu.edu/plant-biology/Faculty/nickrent/ResProjects.html
John Wilkins - 24 Jan 2007 00:44 GMT > >>>>>>>>Hi, > >>>>>>>> [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] > > http://www.science.siu.edu/plant-biology/Faculty/nickrent/ResProjects.html Very cool. I note that malarial parasite Plasmodium, which is an apicoform, has chloroplasts, even though it is not a plant, probably a case of endosymbiotic capture.
 Signature John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts "He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."
John Harshman - 24 Jan 2007 02:24 GMT >>>>>>>>>>Hi, >>>>>>>>>> [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] > apicoform, has chloroplasts, even though it is not a plant, probably a > case of endosymbiotic capture. Well, of course there are plenty of non-plants with primary chloroplasts. But there are also secondary, tertiary, and I even seem to recall a case of quaternary chloroplasts. And all chloroplasts are cases of endosymbiotic capture, so I presume you were trying to refer to secondary endosymbiosis.
John Wilkins - 24 Jan 2007 02:27 GMT ...
> >>>There are quite a few parasitic plants that don't photosynthesize at > >>>all. I don't know if they have non-fuctional chloroplasts or have lost [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > of endosymbiotic capture, so I presume you were trying to refer to > secondary endosymbiosis. It's so long ago I read this stuff that I don't know *what* I'm saying. I didn't think all apicoforms had chloroplasts. I'm probably wrong.
 Signature John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts "He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."
John Harshman - 24 Jan 2007 16:24 GMT > ... > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > It's so long ago I read this stuff that I don't know *what* I'm saying. > I didn't think all apicoforms had chloroplasts. I'm probably wrong. They don't, and none of the ones with chloroplasts photosynthesize. I understand that apicomplexans are fairly closely related to dinoflagellates, all of which have chloroplasts. I don't know if dinoflagellate chloroplasts are secondary or not. Somewhere I have an article that explains all this. I wonder where.
This one seems nice:
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/E/Endosymbiosis.html
deowll - 24 Jan 2007 04:25 GMT >> >>>>>Hi, >> >>>>> [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > Well, I suppose that cholorplasts could be secondarily lost, although I > don't know how the organisms would get their energy. Parasitism? Ingesting parts of other organisms or maybe sap or something?
deowll - 23 Jan 2007 03:25 GMT >>> > Hi, >>> > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Z Read a nice one about some "fruit" that went off and mated and laid eggs they planted and that grew up to be trees that had "fruit". I can see organisms that do photosynthesis and move around. They would off course need to be largely sedentary but it isn't off the wall unlikely. I think there's a clam that can actually do it. I mean not just symbiots; it can store solar energy.
pete - 23 Jan 2007 05:11 GMT on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:26:44 -0600, deowll <deowll@bellsouth.net> sez:
>"zolota" <zolota3@shaw.ca> wrote in message >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >a clam that can actually do it. I mean not just symbiots; it can store solar >energy. That's gotta be one of the great potential benefits of genetic engineering - adding chloroplasts to our genome, so we never have to worry about starving, just sit in the sun and vegetate. It'd be very popular for space travel, as well - make packing a whole lot simpler...
And of course "you're lookin' kinda green!" would be a compliment, like "nice tan!"
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deowll - 24 Jan 2007 04:25 GMT > on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:26:44 -0600, deowll <deowll@bellsouth.net> sez: > [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > And of course "you're lookin' kinda green!" would be a compliment, > like "nice tan!" Endothermic's use to much energy but if you went to exothermic is would work.
mathematician - 18 Feb 2007 18:15 GMT > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQRCmko5cR0 I found one strange photograph (falsified or not ?) from the net where one strange creature is right below on the photograph. This resembles the "creature" (if ever existed) which was in the above video ?
http://www.diskus.net/ufo/roswell.htm
Few strange related photographs (falsified or not ?) also which I found from the net:
http://www.webtre.it/Principale/QuadriCentraleLaterali/SezLaterali/Roswell/Roswe ll.htm
Hannu
P.S. I have put these for curiosity due one can find all kind of strange matters which are not understandable from the net ?
"I only like to ask these strange questions. I do not know answers."
> Best Regards, > [quoted text clipped - 219 lines] > > read more » William Wingstedt - 04 Jun 2007 03:15 GMT >Hi, > >Q1. What Kind of Evolution Environment in Some Planet is Needed for >Vegetables to Develop Legs, Hands and Big Brains ? Why, it may be the very environment we find ourselves in, even now (diswashing liquid!......Yes, that's right, you're soaking in it...) All it took was thousands of millions of years for a bipedal, mostly hairless, ape to ascend to the task of imagining it. Now that it's bound to happen, pity we may not be here to see it.
>Please take a look below copies of my couple articles in sci.physics, >sci.astro and sci.med.pathology. [quoted text clipped - 406 lines] >------REST OF PETER'S ARTICLE (MORE OR LESS NOT ACCEPTABLE?) CUT >AWAY--------------
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