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the obesity religious link has nothing to do with religion. I’m from the south. People are obese in the south and people are religious in the south. It has to do with southern usa culture. Houston texas is one of the fastest cities in the usa. There’s a lot of churches in texas too I bet – there you go.
The published paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018011
And the news article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20265-x.html
This is not possible! By definition!!!
The article is about classic life because it is an investigation of DNA sequences.
A shadow biosphere MUST have a unique heredity molecule, something other than the A-T-G-C bases of DNA!
Or, at the very least, it must have different codons for its amino acids.
The recA and rpoB sequences in question are very unusual, but they are STILL CLASSIC GENES!
They cannot be from a shadow biosphere!
Yes, and this is THE reason Kirsten is correct in predicting that it won’t ever happen again, on Earth.
Once life takes hold, resources are in high demand.
There are few square inches of the surface of the Earth not covered by bacteria.
New life in potentia requires BILLIONS of years plus NO COMPETITION to evolve.
This will NOT happen again on Earth barring a most violent and thorough sterilization.
Anyway, to read what Paul Davies has to say about it, check out his book The Eerie Silence.
The published paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21436402
And the news article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110324153753.htm
I don’t know what you said – or think you said – should happen, but the news article is worthless.
The published paper has NOTHING to do with distances to the black hole event horizon; this part of the news article is a red herring.
Though if you’re implying that the findings disagree with General Relativity, you’d be mistaken!
According to the news article:
There is nothing unusual about matter particles following a slingshot path around a star, be it a black hole or a red giant!
300 kilometers (1 light millisecond) away from an the Event Horizon of the Cygnus X-1 black hole may not be the best place for a human, but it’s a fine neighborhood to find an accretion disk with electrons outputting synchrotron radiation!
Sorry, Justin, you’ll have to look elsewhere for evidence to support your anti-Einsteinian ideas… 🙁
On the other hand, this is a pretty cool analysis using an old telescope to observe polarized gamma rays!