Primordial Soup

[Rhys W]

Here's a tip - if you go on holiday for 2 weeks, clean out your coffee jug before you leave. A couple more days, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Richard Dawkins in my kitchen, studying evolution.

[scott]

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.

[Mr Larrington]

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But I was breedin' that mould. His name was Albert. I was trying to get him two foot high.
</Red_Dwarf>

[goatpebble]

About twenty years ago, there was a wonderful Horizon documentary, 'Dr Bonner and The Slime Moulds'.

This was an era when Horizon was at its best. Amazing things, and some bloody good science for a popular audience.

The slime mould thing was rather special. A specialist niche that had you thinking very hard at what happens around you.

It's sad to think of the Horizon slot now. It's often very bad.

[tiermat]

You are trying to acheive this aren't you? (from gpf-comics)

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[clarion]

Slime moulds are fascinating things.  But not in coffee cups/jugs

[Pete]

We had a life form somewhat like that, in a bottle of orange squash that we'd left in France for two months.  I didn't think undiluted orange squash in a closed bottle could go that way, but there again...

I also had some doubts about the vinegar.  No green bits this time, but a distinct cloudiness and indeterminate fragments of something or other in it. 

We threw both out.