Article View: comp.ai
Article #9110Biocidal concomitants of radiation (was: Computers--Next stage in evolution? Hmmmmmm.....)
From: Cameron Laird
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:50
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:50
38 lines
3099 bytes
3099 bytes
In article <vlsi_libD4D6MM.Hov@netcom.com>, Gerard Malecki <shankar@vlibs.com> wrote: . . . >I doubt it. Surely, *most* species would be annihilated completely. However >there are many primitive forms of life that can withstand high levels of >radioactivity as well as high mutation rates. In the long run, organisms Anyone know the facts, here, as opposed to speculation? Is it "primitive" life forms that resist radioactivity well? Are you hypothesizing "high mutation rates" from some source other than as a direct con- sequence of "high levels of radioactivity"? >that have high fertility rates would be favored since disastrous mutations >would be naturally eliminated without adversely affecting the population >strength. Same question: this seems a plausible enough story, but who has worked through the population genetics? > >Also, most of the highly radioactive products have a sufficiently small >half life that their concentration gets exponentially reduced with time. Are there radioactive species whose concen- tration does *not* decline exponentially (or perhaps as a linear combination of expo- nentials, when more than one transition is available)? Is this some use of "exponen- tial" with which I am not familiar? . . . Follow-ups considerably narrowed. -- Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird@Neosoft.com +1 713 267 7966 claird@litwin.com +1 713 996 8546
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<3ivgot$fuq@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!uni-duisburg.de!zib-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mailReferences:
<3huofl$ogd@mp.cs.niu.edu> <longrich-1902950047320001@longrich.student.princeton.edu> <Harmon.1779.000BA9A5@psyvax.psy.utexas.edu> <vlsi_libD4D6MM.Hov@netcom.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106bde,2be980cd79a0f936,start X-Google-Attributes: gid106bde,public X-Google-Thread: 10b271,2be980cd79a0f936,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public X-Google-Thread: f7de2,2be980cd79a0f936,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf7de2,public X-Google-Thread: 111f18,cc132289877a6327 X-Google-Attributes: gid111f18,public X-Google-Thread: 10ca9b,cc132289877a6327 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ca9b,public X-Google-Thread: 105832,cc132289877a6327 X-Google-Attributes: gid105832,public X-Google-Thread: 10461e,cc132289877a6327 X-Google-Attributes: gid10461e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-28 09:08:51 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!uni-duisburg.de!zib-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird) Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.consciousness,comp.ai.alife,sci.physics,bionet.biophysics,bionet.population-bio Subject: Biocidal concomitants of radiation (was: Computers--Next stage in evolution? Hmmmmmm.....) Followup-To: bionet.population-bio,bionet.biophysics Date: 28 Feb 1995 09:50:53 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3ivgot$fuq@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <3huofl$ogd@mp.cs.niu.edu> <longrich-1902950047320001@longrich.student.princeton.edu> <Harmon.1779.000BA9A5@psyvax.psy.utexas.edu> <vlsi_libD4D6MM.Hov@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com