Submission + - Plasma-Based Life possible? 1
An anonymous reader writes: According to Space.com, Researchers from Germany's Max Planck Institute have created a computer model demonstrating that microscopic dust-particles injected into low-temperature plasmas spontaneously self-organize into crystalline structures resembling DNA and other biological structures. Team member V.N. Tsytovich states "These complex, self-organized plasma structures exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter."
No word yet on how this discovery might affect Human-Klingon relations.
No word yet on how this discovery might affect Human-Klingon relations.