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好啦，大家都知道變形金剛很紅是沒錯，但有必要什麼都得牽拖到柯博文vs密卡登嗎？ ㄟ… 只是順便發揮一下想像力而已，別太計較！ 月中的時候英國泰晤士報刊登了一篇報導：Dust 'comes alive' in space。內容是說：

An international panel from the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Max Planck institute in Germany and the University of Sydney found that galactic dust could form spontaneously into helixes and double helixes and that the inorganic creations had memory and the power to reproduce themselves.

意思是銀河塵可以自動形成單螺旋及雙螺旋體。更離譜的是，無機物的東西居然擁有記憶，而且可以自我複製… hmm… 傳說中的火種嗎？
其中一段是這麼說的：

The new research, to be published this week in the New Journal of Physics, found nonorganic dust, when held in the form of plasma in zero gravity, formed the helical structures found in DNA. The particles are held together by electromagnetic forces that the scientists say could contain a code comparable to the genetic information held in organic matter. It appeared that this code could be transferred to the next generation.

簡單的說，無重力下把無機星塵丟進電漿之中會形成像 DNA 那樣的螺旋結構。這些由電磁力聚集的粒子被科學家認為含有某些遺傳密碼，就像有機物的行為一樣，還會遺傳到下一代。
當然，對於生命的定義也許我們一直認為是有機生命體！記得小時候某個影集有演到一團閃電飄來飄去，神出鬼沒的劇情。男主角就說了這樣的話，生命的型態也許超出我們認知範圍很多，不能一直存有偏見。看來 NASA 有很多新型態的外星人可以尋找了。