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From: gmezero@primenet.com (Game Zero)
Subject: Re: Stumbled across new definition for life...
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In article <pinbackCvw0CG.Bu1@netcom.com> pinback@netcom.com (Ben Parrish) writes:
>From: pinback@netcom.com (Ben Parrish)
>Subject: Re: Stumbled across new definition for life...
>Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 00:07:28 GMT

>: In my opinion, Life is that which moves for its own purposes.  Here's why.

>["why" deleted]

>What about plants?

>-- 
>[ pinback@netcom.com : ben parrish : long .signatures indicate insecurity ]

Plants DO move... albiet slowly, a plant will rotate its leaves to point
in the direction of the sun, and if you turn a seedling "upside down",
it will correct itself so that its roots grow in the direction of gravitational
pull. 

While I am not sure that I agree with the idea of movement as a definition
of life, remember that movement is a relative thing.

Lisa aka. The Red Salamander Zaruga
gmezero@primenet.com
