Raspberry sugar is found in interstellar space.

“The Milky Way's galactic center, as captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared. One new study has found sugar in interstellar space near the center of our galaxy. (Image credit: NASA/Caltech/Susan Stolovy (SSC, Caltech)).” (Space.com, Raspberry sugar spotted in interstellar space, a sweet discovery that could reveal clues about life's origins)

Researchers say that this is evidence of sugar formation outside the cells. On Earth, flora forms sugar. Chlorophyll converts light and nutrients into sugars. But the same reaction can happen without cells. And that is one of the most interesting and at the same time. Disappointing findings in history. In the past, sugars were thought to be clues to life. Or some people thought that sugars were fingerprints of life. 

But new findings show something else. This means that life is more complicated than people thought. And finding life in the universe is more difficult than people thought. Those findings about the sugar in interstellar space. They are still interesting. The possibility that the sugars can form spontaneously. 

Without cells. It can mean that life itself. It can be. Quite. A common thing. But intelligent and higher organisms are rare. This means that some prokaryotes. They can be found more commonly than people thought. But higher multicelled organisms. They are very rare. 

Anyway. Those sugars cause a need to rethink. About methods to search for life. We can find new solar systems. And then we must realize that there is no common mode. That can fit all solar systems. Every solar system is, in any way, unique. And if there are other organisms. Those organisms adapted to their home planet. 

So this means that. Even hellish planets are a paradise for their endemic organisms. This doesn’t mean that those organisms can survive on Earth. Modelling the habitable planet. It's not as easy as people think. Things like water layers, gravity, and radiation. Including the type of star that it orbits and the age of the star. They determine if life is possible. But there are many variables. 

https://www.space.com/astronomy/raspberry-sugar-spotted-in-interstellar-space-a-sweet-discovery-that-could-reveal-clues-about-lifes-origins

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/search-for-life/searching-for-alien-life-new-model-could-help-scientists-home-in-on-habitable-exoplanets

That finding causes an interesting thought about life. 

The big question is always. Can there be lifeforms without planets? 

SciFi writer and astronomer Fred Hoyle introduced the possibility that all living creatures. They don’t need planets. In his novel “The Black Cloud,” Hoyle introduced an organism. That seemed like a black cloud. There is a theoretical possibility. That is the diatomic structure. It can protect living cells. The cell could remain in hypothermic or cryostatic rest while it travels through interstellar space. 

When that cloud comes to the solar system. That thermal energy. It can wake those cells back to life. The space between stars is calm. The environment is very stable. And that means the DNA and mitochondria of those cells. They can keep their form. The cell can be a vegetable cell. 

But what if we create artificial cells? That can create electricity for computers. And neurons that can communicate with microchips? That kind of system. It could be fundamental. 

Or. If we want to think about intelligent clouds. The cell can be. Hybrid neuron vegetable and fungi cell. That intelligent lichen. It could be the base for the futuristic biohybrid microchips. The fungi and algae feed the neuron. That communicates with microchips. Maybe someday we could create those systems. They might get electricity from cells that create electricity. That kind of bioelectric system. They can be futuristic computers. That can create electricity from the fertilizer. 

There is also a possibility that viruses. They can travel through interstellar space. And it's possible. That's some of those viruses. They can cause epidemics on Earth. Viruses are more likely candidates for interstellar travelers than bacteria. Viruses have no metabolism of their own. And they can keep their DNA or RNA in its form for thousands of years. If the environment is stable. And the temperature is almost absolute zero. 

Could the spacecraft be a cyborg?

Some researchers introduced an idea to send genetically engineered microbes to Alpha Centauri. In the most incredible ideas, the researchers send the small probe to the nearest solar system by using laser rays. The laser ray will push that small probe to route to Alpha Centauri. 

Sometimes introduced an idea, that by using cloned neurons is possible to create spacecraft that intelligence is similar level with humans. The problem with those biological computers is the aging of the DNA. And stabilizing the DNA is the key problem in interstellar space missions. 

Cosmic radiation fibrates the genetic material of those cells. That causes damage to the DNA. And this is why there must be something that protects those cells against cosmic radiation. 

There are two ways to make that thing real. 

*The system can use cryogenics. In cryogenic systems, those neurons are feezing in temperatures near zero kelvin. Also, cells that create nutrients for those neurons must be stored. 

*Or the system can use active cells. That requires the closed nutrient cycle that cleans and recycle the nutrient for those artificial brains during long space journey. 

In the most conventional version of this cyborg android UFO, developers store those brain cells in the spacecraft. They will put those cells in the cryogenic capsule. During the long journey, the AI controls the craft. When that craft is near its destiny the AI will melt cells. 

And then they would get nutrients for the mission. In that version, the required information is stored in those neurons. The idea is that the BCI (Brain-Computer Interface) will use to teach those neurons. The system requires a complicated closed nutrient cycle, which is very difficult to make. 

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Genetically engineered brain cells can transfer memories between humans. 

The idea about genetically engineered neurons that hybridized with fungus as the brain of robots or robot spacecraft is taken from the myth that "some Egyptian god is a fungus". The source of that myth is that ancient Egyptian priests used psilocybin fungus for hallucinations. 

And in some versions, the fungi were some of those gods. Maybe some priests that used those mushrooms too often told those stories. But that myth is used for making models for parasitoid aliens. 

The idea is that the neuron-fungus hybrid can take other creatures under control. And one of the theoretical parasitoid aliens is mushroom-fungus hybridization. And if those neurons could travel between bodies. 

Some futurologists introduced a model that memory neurons that took from the brain or where the BCI-system transmitted information can transfer memories between humans. The idea is that researchers can transplant those cells between humans. And at the same time, the memories travel to the new body. 

That thing could explain the metempsychosis. The thing is that metempsychosis is in this version the memory cells that are traveling from the dead body to the next host body. Maybe that thing is possible in the future. 

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But could those neurons be awake during the mission? 

In the most incredible versions of that spacecraft, the cloned neurons will control that spacecraft. The idea is that there are three layers of cloned neurons. That are forming artificial brains. The system requires that neurons can get nutrients during the flight. And of course, dead neurons must be replaced by new ones. 

For success, that kind of system must have a closed nutrient cycling system. That system can base on the genetically engineered neurons that hybridized with fungus. The system can use bacteria as nutrients and the cells can have pre-programmed genomes inside them. At first, the cells start their lives as part of the fungus that takes nutrients for neurons. Then that fungus cell transforms itself into a neuron. 

And after that, its mission will be to replace the dying neurons. The system will recycle dead neurons into nutrients for bacteria that are feeding the ecosystem. This kind of cyborg can be possible in the future. And in some visions UFOs:s are machines that are driven by AI or living neurons. 

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