On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 02:50 +1000, Stephen Loosley wrote: > Biologists discover bacteria that eat pure electrons, redefining life
"Redefining life" seems a bit of stretch. Photosynthesising plants "eat" photons and nobody marvels at how they are "eating pure energy". I know, I'm missing the point a bit :-) The heat that keeps us all alive by allowing chemical reactions to take place at appropriate rates is "pure energy" too. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: EC67 61E2 C2F6 EB55 884B E129 072B 0AF0 72AA 9882 Old fingerprint: B862 FB15 FE96 4961 BC62 1A40 6239 1208 9865 5F9A _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
