Cars can be Classified as Living Organisms

[Qwerty333]

Before you read this, I'm not a crazy freak who thinks that cars have minds of their own. This is just something interesting that I heard.

Cars are alive. This may sound crazy, but hear me out. The basic requirements for classification of a living organism are as follows:

Regulation of the internal environment to maintain a constant state; for example, electrolyte concentration or sweating to reduce temperature.
- Cars do this by releasing exhaust

Being structurally composed of one or more cells, which are the basic units of life.
- Each individual car part is a cell

Transformation of energy by converting chemicals and energy into cellular components.
- Gasoline provides the energy for a car, and if not gas, electricity

Maintaining growth
- Cars grow while moving along the assembly line

The ability to change over a period of time in response to the environment.
- Cars can automatically turn on windshield wipers, lights, anti-lock brakes, and other things to adapt to the situation

Response to stimuli
- When you push the gas petal down, the car responds by moving (unless in park or in neutral, but you know what I mean)

The ability to produce new individual organisms
- Thousands of new cars are made every day, so if that's not reproduction, I don't know what is

Based on DNA and RNA
- Blueprints and blueprint copies directly represent DNA and RNA

So, with this information, who is to say that cars are not technically "alive"?

[Anonymousperson5]

They don't do it independently. Cars don't reproduce each other, nor do they grow by themselves. The energy they consume is entirely devoted to moving, not growing or digesting.

So yeah.

[Rock]

Yeah, they're about as alive as viruses. They have to fit all the characteristics of life to be classified as a living thing.

[Qwerty]

"reproduction" is just that: reproduction. This is cloning, not reproduction. You don't see cars spouting little car seeds that you plant in a production line to make new cars from.

[izacque]

This thread is silly.

[Qwerty]

Agreed, cars really don't fit any of the requirements.

[Qwerty333]

My super reply to all of you is as follows...

Sept 26, 2011 22:34:43 GMT Anonymousperson5 said:

Cars don't reproduce each other, nor do they grow by themselves. The energy they consume is entirely devoted to moving, not growing or digesting.

Yes, but they still are reproduced.

Sept 26, 2011 23:05:09 GMT Rock said:

Yeah, they're about as alive as viruses. They have to fit all the characteristics of life to be classified as a living thing.

They do, but only literally. Not technically.

Sept 26, 2011 23:24:18 GMT Qwerty said:

You don't see cars spouting little car seeds that you plant in a production line to make new cars from.

That would be really awesome, though.

Sept 27, 2011 14:17:15 GMT izacque said:

This thread is silly.

It sure is.

Sept 28, 2011 1:44:56 GMT Qwerty said:

Agreed, cars really don't fit any of the requirements.

Read my reply to Rock.

So, yeah. That's what I have to say.

[ganondorfchampin]

Your mom can be classified as a living organism.

[Qwerty]

Actually, yes, she can. Cars, however, cannot. They fit none of the requirements, literally or technically (even though those mean essentially the same thing).

[Necrotising Fasciitis]

q333 you sound like a crazy conspiricist

[izacque]

You know, my computer....

[nmagain]

Sept 30, 2011 13:52:15 GMT izacque said:

You know, my computer....

i came here to post this same thing.

if cars are considered living organisms, then any machine/device can.

[izacque]

so yeah, take a 9th grade biology course and then come back.

[Qwerty333]

Sept 30, 2011 17:28:16 GMT izacque said:

so yeah, take a 9th grade biology course and then come back.

A 9th grade biology course is where I heard this. I'm not a crazy freak who thinks that cars have minds of their own. It's just something interesting that I heard.

[Rock]

X 1.Composed of Cells
X 2.Grow and Develop
X 3. Regulate their Metobolic Processes
. 4. Respond to Stimuli
X 5.Reproduce
X 6.Evolve and Become Adapted To The Environment
. 7. Ability to obtain and use energy
X 8. Have homeostasis

[mdog95]

You can go ahead and take the X off of 8. If cars couldn't control their internal temperature (respond to high temperatures), the engines would overheat.

[Deleted]

I'm pretty sure things aren't pieced together as they grow... in fact, I consider construction as the figurative "birth" of a car, not its growth. The growth would be it expanding horizontally or vertically after birth, which cars don't do.
And not all of them can automatically activate things.

[Likep]

OK, If anything, cars are NOT alive.

Maintaining growth
- Cars grow while moving along the assembly line
Cars don't grow by themselves

The ability to produce new individual organisms
- Thousands of new cars are made every day, so if that's not reproduction, I don't know what is
Reproduction. On their own.

Based on DNA and RNA
- Blueprints and blueprint copies directly represent DNA and RNA
That's not exactly DNA.

Being structurally composed of one or more cells, which are the basic units of life.
- Each individual car part is a cell
Nor is this exactly a cell.

Half the stuff you said is incorrect.

[izacque]

Oct 1, 2011 3:56:07 GMT Qwerty333 said:

Sept 30, 2011 17:28:16 GMT izacque said:

so yeah, take a 9th grade biology course and then come back.

A 9th grade biology course is where I heard this. I'm not a crazy freak who thinks that cars have minds of their own. It's just something interesting that I heard.

Sue your teacher for being a dumbass.

[mdog95]

His teacher was obviously being figurative, but I'm gonna have to agree with that one.

[Qwerty333]

Oct 4, 2011 17:26:16 GMT mdog95 said:

His teacher was obviously being figurative.

That is correct. As I said, I don't think cars are living organisms that have minds of their own, nor does my teacher.

This thread is silly. Can someone lock it? The conversation is pretty much over.

:P

[Rock]

Mmk