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Black Smokers
Guest:
ic , now check out my fix to the huge numbers mutating problem
Botsareus:
:rolleyes: Duh not logged in sry , http://s9.invisionfree.com/DarwinBots_Foru...hp?showtopic=65
Numsgil:
--- Quote ---Erupting chemicals - H2S, FeS, H2, NH4, NO2, CH4
O2 and CO2 are still dissolved in seawater
CO2 + H2O + H2S + O2 -> CH2O + H2SO4
FeS+H2S ->FeS2+H2+free energy
H2SO4 is soluble in water.
H2SO4 <-> H3O + + HSO4 -
HSO4 - <-> H3O + + SO4 2-
SO4 is dissolved in water
--- End quote ---
How does that fit in with the equations I listed? I took them (unbalanced of course) from my bio text book.
I'm just trying to figure out all the possible metabolic types. :ph43r:
I think we should have the option to randomly kill of a smoker from time to time. From what I hear, this happens in the real environment. Then bots might evolve to go into nomad mode, and search out anotherone.
PurpleYouko:
--- Quote ---I think we should have the option to randomly kill of a smoker from time to time. From what I hear, this happens in the real environment. Then bots might evolve to go into nomad mode, and search out anotherone.
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Don't much like the idea of randomly turning a smoker off.
Seems to me that black smokers are a very stable environment. Whole comunities of creatures live around them. Most (if not all) of these would be incapale of surviving long enough to migrate to a new smoker if theirs should suddenly stop smoking as it were.
I don't know much about how this works in real life but I would have thought that a smoker would have to be extremely long lived and stable in order for creatures to adapt to living on it through evolution.
Do you have any references to the fact that they sometimes stop smoking? I would like to read up on ths a bit more.
This is one of the best sites I have found on them.
:D PY :D
Numsgil:
I can't find the link, but I'm fairly certain (read: I am positive) that I read somewhere that they returned to one vent they visited and found the vent dead.
So the question is how did the organisms evolve in such a way that they can survive the unpredictability of the vents?
For that matter how did the organisms spread from vent to vent? Maybe its a similar adaptatin that land animals use to adapt to summer / winter.
Reminds me of Asimov's Nightfall. One of the scientists muses that life cannot devlop in a binary or single star system because it would be dark for part of the day. I think, no matter how extreme the conditions, if we're careful we can evolve organisms that adapt.
We should certainly be careful about hard coding our own prejudices into any simulation. The mroe options the better :D
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