Carbon Based Lifeforms - Supersede
A magnificent production about This Magnificent Planet -
Enjoy! 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tt49CAEvg8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tt49CAEvg8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tt49CAEvg8)
A neat video - some of these lifeforms, as presented, could/would be called "alien lifeforms" in alternative exo-planetary life discussions or reviews, doncha think? Some really odd looking creatures, with some having hand/arm/leg type appendages.
Videos like this should help prepare our perceptions of what we could/should expect, if there is actually "life" to be discovered in other Universe planetary circumstances. :)
Interestingly enough at 1:00 they show "Caveslime"
This is actually called SNOTTITE (yes because it LOOKS like Snot :P
(http://thelivingmoon.com/05images/portals/SnottiteCluster1.jpg)
http://www.caveslime.org/Photos/Snottites/
These are effectively the primordial life forms... they are more sulfur based than carbon based.
These are your ANCESTORS :P
They would be right at home on Venus as they live in sulfuric acid
Snottite is a microbial mat of single-celled extremophilic bacteria which hang from the walls and ceilings of caves and are similar to small stalactites, but have the consistency of snot. In the Frasassi Caves in Italy, over 70% of cells in Snottite have been identified as Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans, with smaller populations including an archaeon in the uncultivated 'G-plasma' clade of Thermoplasmatales (>15%) and a bacterium in the Acidimicrobiaceae family (>5%).
The bacteria derive their energy from chemosynthesis of volcanic sulfur compounds including H2S and warm-water solution dripping down from above, producing sulfuric acid. Because of this, their waste products are highly acidic (approaching pH=0), with similar properties to battery acid.
Snottites were brought to attention by researchers Diana Northup and Penny Boston studying them (and other organisms) in a toxic sulfur cave called Cueva de Villa Luz (Cave of the Lighted House), in Tabasco, Mexico. The term "snottite" was given to these cave features by Jim Pisarowicz in 1986.
Brian Cox's BBC series Wonders of the Solar System saw a scientist examining snottites in the caves and positing that if there is life on Mars, it may be similarly primitive and hidden beneath the surface of the Red Planet.[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snottite
More Photos
http://www.caveslime.org/Photos/Snottites/
Then there was the Alien Antenna
(http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/eltanin-antenna.jpg)
That image was floating around the net as an Alien antenna for a long time. It was taken by divers in the Arctic Ocean. Considered a hoax by skeptics it turns out it is an animal
(http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy217/mangust3/bizzare/chondrocladia_spmcclain.jpg)
Unknown Chondrocladia species
(http://deepseanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/medium.jpg)
Flesh Eating Sponges
http://deepseanews.com/2013/05/flesh-eating-sponges/
If EVOLUTION is indeed true... then it follows that evolution is still ongoing today. Old species are dying off, new species being found all the time, especially in the ocean depths