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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6668020" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Quite likely - "life" has a couple of highly recognizable traits we can generalize over various platforms of life:</p><p></p><p>Homeostasis: Regulation of the internal environment to maintain a constant state; for example, electrolyte concentration or sweating to reduce temperature. </p><p>Metabolism: Transformation of energy. Living things require energy to maintain internal organization (homeostasis) and to produce the other phenomena associated with life.</p><p></p><p>Basically, the giant coral reef that is "alive" is thermodynamically not the same as a rock. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Um, a cloud of charged particles *is* plasma.</p><p></p><p>The answer, however, isn't that deep - barring exotic forces mankind doesn't know about, that cloud of charged particles has electromagnetic forces to work with. So, we are basically talking about chemistry. There isn't a whole lot of chemistry to plasma, because it is so energetic, it doesn't form lasting bonds between its particles. No lasting bonds, no life, and no intelligence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6668020, member: 177"] Quite likely - "life" has a couple of highly recognizable traits we can generalize over various platforms of life: Homeostasis: Regulation of the internal environment to maintain a constant state; for example, electrolyte concentration or sweating to reduce temperature. Metabolism: Transformation of energy. Living things require energy to maintain internal organization (homeostasis) and to produce the other phenomena associated with life. Basically, the giant coral reef that is "alive" is thermodynamically not the same as a rock. Um, a cloud of charged particles *is* plasma. The answer, however, isn't that deep - barring exotic forces mankind doesn't know about, that cloud of charged particles has electromagnetic forces to work with. So, we are basically talking about chemistry. There isn't a whole lot of chemistry to plasma, because it is so energetic, it doesn't form lasting bonds between its particles. No lasting bonds, no life, and no intelligence. [/QUOTE]
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