Eating test result
The experiment:
- Get some regolith.
- Moisten it with ``soup'' containing hydrocarbon* molecules.
- The life forms eat the C* and breath out C*O2.
- Look in the gas given off for C* decays.
Control experiment:
- Keep feeding it soup.
- A chemical process might make some C*O2, but when the reactants
are used up the process would stop.
- Creatures would keep growing (if they like the soup)
and keep giving off C*O2
Result: Some C*O2 seen at first but more soup did not lead to more
C*O2 production.
But maybe the creatures died.
So the result was rather inconclusive. It appears that the regolith is just
chemically reactive.
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Davison E. Soper, Institute of Theoretical Science,
University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403 USA
soper@bovine.uoregon.edu