The idea that emitted radiation from LENR is harmful to organisms runs counter to most thought about LENR energy release. I'm not saying most thought about LENR energy is right, you understand -- I'm just saying that if we explain away this "miracle" by that means, we should certainly question such claims of "harmlessness" of LENR radiation.
As for cockroaches -- if we find they evolved radiation hardening in response to use of BNAEs (biological nuclear active environments) then we have to ask the obvious question: What is the enormous evolutionary cost to such radiation hardening that kept it from spreading throughout life? Moreover, how did cockroaches cross that cost barrier to get the benefit of the BNAE? On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > The LENR energy source has a down side. It is not a source of free energy > to a biological system. The emitted radiation would be obviously harmful. > Consequently, the source would be only employed when this is the only way > to avoid death. Fortunately, evolution has found better ways to get energy. > Nevertheless, the energy source of all life-forms has not been identified. > I can imagine that some single-cell organisms use fusion and transmutation > as sources of energy, but these are rare and generally occupy environments > inaccessible to biologists where the easy sources of energy are not > available. > > In addition, what biologist would suggest that bacteria appear to be > causing a nuclear reaction without being able to show very strong evidence, > which is obviously not easy to get? You can now see the reaction to this > idea even in the face of strong evidence that the effect is real. > > You might ask why cockroaches are very immune to radiation? Why did > evolution give this protection unless they had to be defended from > radiation. Has anyone measured the exact energy source used by a cockroach? > > Ed > > On Jun 9, 2013, at 4:15 PM, James Bowery wrote: > > The subject say it all, really: 'Yet Another LENR "Miracle": Evolution >> Didn't Find It' >> >> If an energy source as abundant and ubiquitous as LENR appears to be >> exists, why wouldn't evolution have found ways of creating the NAE (nuclear >> active environment)? If you say "It did." then you have to explain why the >> manifest evolutionary advantages of such an energy source didn't cause it >> to become wide-spread enough to have baffled biochemists in the course of >> their analysis of metabolism. >> > >
