New life found holycrap

[LemonRising]

Anyone else read this yet???


NASA Finds New Life (Updated) (http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life)



At their conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic. All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the largest whale, share the same life stream. Our DNA blocks are all the same.

But not this one. This one is completely different. Discovered in the poisonous Mono Lake, California, this bacteria is made of arsenic, something that was thought to be completely impossible. While she and other scientists theorized that this could be possible, this is the first discovery. The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding beings in other planets that don't have to be like planet Earth.


AWESOME.

[Muffincat]

Cool O_O;;;

(woot California)

That is awesome. Maybe it'll make people less ego-centric about whether or not life can exist on other planets :P

Thanks for sharing, Lemonz :3

[W1CKEDTW1STED]

Whoa nelly!

[LiNuX]

I don't understand why they thought it was completely impossible. In the universe we live in, nothing is impossible. I wouldn't be surprised if something was made of completely chlorine.

But it is a nice find. It increases the possibility for life to exist on other planets with even more hostile conditions. Life of course would evolve differently but will exist nonetheless.

[insert_cliche_here]

Aren't there still new species being discovered in the deepest depths of the oceans and the most hostile rainforests and all that? You'd have to assume there's more out there than we know about.

This is pretty interesting, thanks for sharing :)

[jango]

I don't quite get their amazement either. It's a bit arrogant of humans to assume that we know about all matter in the universe given that we have contact with a tiny fraction of it.

Still, sounds interesting .. I kinda hope more money goes into expanding our understanding of the universe and our world than developing new ways to destroy ourselves .. but maybe that's a naive view hehe :p

[HamadaLFC8]

I'm sure in a couple of years, these bacteria will plan on attacking us >=o

BEWARE HUMANS!

[Jokersvirus]

Thats interesting, its good to know that there is sometype of "alien" life out there. Ive always believed in something beyond us and since we found it, this will most likely lead to trying to discover other alien races.

[LemonRising]

Well I believe it said they thought it was possible (I read this somewhere else??? I cant find it D:), but its one thing to theorize that its possible.. and another thing to have proof that alters our knowing of the whole universe :D


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