<a class="postlink" href="http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life</a> Dont know about you, but nasa must be pretty stupid if they were specificly looking for life on other planets thats the same as those on earth. Silly humans, think because we are pro, everything else has to be like us. Obviously they havent played mass effect.
lolwut? i mean, all well and good they found new life with different DNA building blocks to everything else we know about but, why did NASA find it? National Aeronautics and Space Administration auronautics and space? that does not fit in with a lake in california. did they discover it? or are they taking the credit?
...And then some organisation comes, cleans up the evidence, kills the scientists who discovered it and cover the whole thing up as a lie! sorry i´ve been watching too much X-files :lol: Pretty awesome news though!
Conspiracies, conspiracies.. It seems that this is pretty exciting though! It really is a new structure of molecules which created a life form, and it really differs from the one we thought that was the only one right now.. But hey, who knows what else is on the bottom of the pacific ocean for example.. so many lifeforms to discover ^^..
I think they just ran out of stuff to do. 8 billion a year is a lot of money to spend, you know. Kind of ironic that they throw billions and billions of money on Bush's elementary school sci-fi fantasies, and then they find evidence of the possible existence of another lifeform in California :lol:
This is pretty big, but I'm not sure its new life...we already found out that bacteria or even lifeforms are capable of adapting themselves, so why didn't those bacteria adapt themselves to arsenic... Lots of whoohoaaa about an interesting scientific fact
Water is presumed to be needed for living things to exist. Why did you think they went all crazy when they found traces of water on Mars?
See that annoys me again, just because we need water to survive, we assume everything else in space will need water to survive. Why cant they look outside of the box. Mars is not earth. Nor is ant other planet out there.
i agree alias, since this "new lifeform" has different DNA building blocks to everything previosly known on Earth, maybe if their DNA building blocks are so different, they will not need water to survive, but eg. carbon monoxide?
And that's the point, because according to the article from gizmodo, it's the first time we find a bacteria that relies on something else than water. So that's a new life-form ! Before that discovery, we didn't know if that was possible or not, that's why we kept on searching for water on Mars and in the rest of space. It was pointless to search for another material if you don't know whether or not a life form relies on this material. Anyway, I read that this bacteria could live with arsenic but also possessed some of "our" DNA building blocks. I don't know what we should trust...
Not completly true there are lifeforms that relay on phosphor, living in the Atlantic ocean on one of those underwater volcano. What is new is the use of an element that isnt used by our DNA