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From: omni@topazio.dcc.ufmg.br (Lucio de Souza Coelho)
Subject: Re: "What is Life?"
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 13:18:23 GMT
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In article <3h8vta$sf3@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>, holtz@netcord.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Holtz) writes:
|> 
|> Imagine a planet on which there somehow suddenly arose a single
|> superdog, doglike in every sense except irreproducible and immortal,
|> and specifically doglike in that it cannot change over its eternal
|> lifespan any more than a dog changes over its mortal lifespan.  When
|> the Enterprise approaches this planet, should Spock report life on it,
|> or not?  If he should, then when Spock sees the Red Spot on Jupiter,
|> should he report life on Jupiter?  What is the difference between
|> the superdog and the Jovian Red Spot?
|> 

What would be Spock's opinion if he consider not only the superdog? If he
consider superdog's associated organisms (we can imagine gut bacteria, skin algae
and fungi and pehaps some fleas) could Spock report life on that planet?

Lucio

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Lucio de Souza Coelho
e-mail: omni@dcc.ufmg.br   http://dcc.ufmg.br/~omni
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
"Mais tanto faz um tanto faz no tanto faz que tanto faz tantos fazes tanto
                       fazendo"
