How frustrating it is for anyone with an idea/research to know(much like Tesla/Edison in this case), that some established cocksuckers are laying in wait at all times ready to publish your shit after polishing touches.
There's a lot here, but first was how close to home this hit, one of my best jobs was in Friday Harbor, in fact I wouldn't have made my own unique lives without that experience.
Although these creatures lack the conventional nervous systems and building blocks to todays life, and without a doubt are "alien" in that regard, it always blows me away when the timeline is assumed that these would be among the first, rather than the latter.
Especially considering scientific discovery changes the landscape daily.
Perhaps like this creature has demonstrated, scientists should approach the biology of the earth and it's origins in the same alien manner, throwing away the traditional timeline that might be constricting; nothing to lose there.
If this structure were before sponges, interesting how they continue to interact and live through a purported 600 million year span, mimicking other creatures that seemingly comprise neither the ability to detect it's "alienation" , or it's ability to extinguish a threat unknown, perhaps not seeing it as a threat?
I found this statement important, because it's solidified my own wonder, whereas science, as broad a field it is, inherently lacks imagination in favor of tunnel-vision when explaining the origin of life...
"This ‘shadow biosphere’ would be difficult to detect, since it might not contain DNA, proteins or the other molecules that we rely on to detect life."
And therein lies the parallel.
I swear, James Cameron just reads obscure journals then pops out sci-fi's, lol.
Cool shit.
Even cooler where he is now from where he came; promising.
