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Why? Seriously. What's the potential gain? Layman asking.

• toomuchtodo 10y ago
  No respiration. You cut the current metabolism pathway down to absorbing electrons. It would be revolutionary.
  • dualogy 10y ago
    > No respiration. > revolutionary. Well your red blood cells, some retina and renal cells, and most cancerous cells also either thrive (or at least do much better) on fermentation aka non-respiration..
• Johnie 10y ago
  Experiment control. Eliminate other factors other than the electrons.
• drzaiusapelord 10y ago
  Imagine if we created an organism that could live in the vacuum of space as comfortable as being on the surface of a planet. It would revolutionize our ideas of space exploration and colonization. Also, I imagine there's some skepticism here. If they lived in a vacuum that means there was nothing else they could live off and they truly are eating electricity. We also live in the age of "viral scholarship" where a lot of shoddy science gets paraded around for status seeking universities and researchers. Remember how skeptics of the FTL claim from those Italians were shot down on these forums and reddit? Skeptics shouldn't be automatically punished. If anything, we need skepticism more than ever.
  • l3m0ndr0p 10y ago
    Maybe these organisms already exist out in "space."
  • chongli 10y ago
    How would they repair themselves and reproduce without access to nutrients?
• bencollier49 10y ago
  I see what you did there! Potential! Ahahaha!
  • themartorana 10y ago
    Yes I... totally did that on purpose...