Moontanman

Normally I take your assertions quite seriously but this seems to be nit picking, the man will have traveled 7 ly in one year of his perceived time. This can be obfuscated any way you want but the facts of his travel is quite clear... If he traveled to a star 7 ly years away at .99 c he would experience 1 year of travel time, from his point of view effectively traveling at 7xc... stationary observers would of course disagree with him but his time frame is effectively ftl from his point of view... possibly i am not getting this but to say he would say he had traveled 1 ly due to his experienced time of one year would disagree with both stationary observers and his own observations once he got there...

You might have a point but I really don'y see why modern pathogens would be any worse than ancient ones...

As far as i know the soft tissue does not contain retrievable DNA and may not be the original soft tissue any more than the fossil bone is the original bone. A zoo like environment is probably closest to how it would be kept depending on how well it would socialize to humans.

just looking at the video and the coral growth suggests everything from sun light to tidal flow is replicated in that tank. i built a 3000 gallon aquarium years ago, it was freshwater but I managed to replicate tidal flow in it much the same way as the video but the video represents a tank in the 10s of thousands of gallons. Just the tidal flow would be very energy consuming... It's more or less circular shape would make it a little easier to do tidal flow but the lighting represents a significant energy debt as well. The water filtration probably takes place in a remote location. I would love to see the filter, i wonder if it's biological or chemical or natural. I like natural as much as possible but it takes up a tremendous amount of space. If the SPS corals are real, and they do appear to be real, then the planning behind this tank is ingenious... It would have to be set up for several years and be in near perfect balance for those several years.. Octopus used to be my main focus, they are not hard to keep with the proper equipment but they do represent a significantly higher bio load than a fish of similar mass...

you gave a link to a paper that suggested the ecosphere of the earth could be thought of as a living organism, not the entire earth or the entire universe... Oh and I cannot prove there are no invisible dragons either, doesn't make it any more probably they exist...

No, I am not suggesting he physically traveled faster than a photon in any time frame but from his point of view he has made a 7 ly journey in less than one year. This reminds me of a novel where society develops two branches, one of which travels back and forth between stars at very high fractions of c and they are separated out as different because the home worlds all experience time much faster than the constant travelers and so both evolve into different societies and it is hinted they speciate as well due to this...

I've been trying to follow this and I think i understand to some extent but I have to say that from the frame of the guy on the space ship he has traveled 7 ly in one year of his life... correct? Isn't this from his stand point faster than light? I may be confused i admit..

I'm not sure the soft tissue is relevant to this but lets allow it. I would approve of such a clone being created, I would have to say some strict guide lines would have to be followed but I personally would have no problem with it. A group of them would be more to my liking but even an individual erectus could teach some amazing things i am sure..

No, the universe is not a highly regulated environment. No, planets are not alive in any sense of the word any more than sand grains on a beach are alive. And yet life is not just random chemical and physical chnages... As far as we know the universe is expanding but it is not adding mass but your analogy fails even more basically than that, adding mass doesn't make something alive... Something external to the universe is nonsensical... And just as meaningless... And yet has no evidence to back it up, I think it's more reasonable that a brobdingnagian beast that feeds on dark matter and excretes universes is how universes are born... you can define life anyway you want to get the results you want but that doesn't make your definition evidently true... Fire fulfills most of your criteria as well but fire is not alive be the standard definition...

Where would you get the DNA?

Jens, UV radiation causes the production of H2O2 in the ice, as it is subducted into the ocean beneath the ice the H2O2 degrades into O2 and H2O and is released into the ocean underneath...

It's almost unbelievable, as along time reef addict the mind is boggled by just how difficult it would be to maintain such a large tank. I am awed by this...

This is the wildest reef aquarium I have ever seen, it must take many tens of thousands of dollars to operate it a year.

I can see a mind being down loaded into a computer if it could live an internal artificial reality, like a directed dream world, I don't how long it would take for that to be deadly boring but it could possibly entertain the disembodied mind between communications with the outside world or it could maintain some sort of internal model of of the sensory input it received where the external reality is as real as ours is to us... Hmmm I think I've been this way before... sounds a bit like us...

You have no more evidence of this than creationists have of the earth being 6,000 years old. The OP at least asked specific questions that could be answered in a specific way. If you use the standard definitions of life then obviously the universe is not alive by those standards. But you can redefine life and speculate endlessly about it but you still have to have a definition of life before you speculate on something being alive. I could change the definition of life and declare a volcano alive but it would still be a volcano not a living thing and only I would think it was alive...

I am going to be honest, this is not my theory, to me it sounds far too good to be true but minds greater than mine say it is at least possible. From what I understand gravity has nothing to do with it except I would have to assume negative mass would have negative gravity and negative mass is necessary for this to work as well as negative energy. I and some others, i think, have provided links to the details of this.

you provided a link to your site as as evidence, spammy at best, feel free to show your own ideas as support for the OP but just pointing out your site with no discussion is not what is going on here. As i have pointed out already in this thread the universe does not conform to the definition of life, I will not debate your link unless you put it in a new thread and not as a link, you need to list what you think makes the universe alive so others can debate you as well with out having to visit your site...

Again, i suggest that if you want to discuss your pet idea that you start another thread. I will not derail this one discussing your ideas...

The expansion of space behind the bubble and contraction ahead of the bubble propels the bubble forward.

Do you realize just how weak your idea is? Scientists do not rely on faith. but do rely on empirical evidence of which your theory has none. I suggest you start a new thread on this if you want to discuss the details... I can see many problems with it...

This is not as cut and dried as you suggest, in fact a great many animals have somewhat less than determinant sexuality. Among fish is is quite common for males to become females and for males to switch to females. some change genders simply due to dominance and in some animals both genders are present in one individual. While what you suggest is true of mammals it is not true of all or even most other animals if you include animals in the scientific sense...

hehehe, and you think I am really in SE Carolina? The plan is working...

I have the feeling we are not quite as far apart on this as you think but I really can't follow you on this...