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By Arcanaville,
Posted on: 2010-11-30 16:42 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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My guess is that it's not something they found on another world but something here on Earth that could further broaden our definition of life and widen the scope of conditions that might produce life.
Reasonable, though disappointing if true.

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My guess is that it's not something they found on another world but something here on Earth that could further broaden our definition of life and widen the scope of conditions that might produce life.
Reasonable, though disappointing if true.
This just in from NASA: Rocks have now been reclassified as GLFs (Geologic Life Forms).
Amazingly enough right after that reclassification they started to find life all over the Solar System.

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Swiss, pepper jack, or provolone? Because if it's swiss, then bleh. Cuz that stuff tastes like feet.
How in the world do you know what feet tastes like?!

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I found out what it's all about:

 

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How in the world do you know what feet tastes like?!
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They found Gateway.
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I'll take a stab and say it has something to do with Enceladus or Titan.
If it's not pictures of something jumping out from behind a rock and yelling "bleah! bleah!" at one of our fallen space probes, I'm not really interested.

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According to something my dad read earlier today, they (I guess "they" being the author of the article) expect some announcement that they've found arsenic-eating bacteria on Titan.

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I bet it is something to due with Project Wildfire. I hear good things about that project!

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According to something my dad read earlier today, they (I guess "they" being the author of the article) expect some announcement that they've found arsenic-eating bacteria on Titan.
Whew! Finally we'd have a way to get rid of our excess arsenic...
I'll bet if the bacteria eat arsenic and excrete something useful like Vigara we'd be building 100 new spaceships to get there.

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Today's the day we meat ET!

 

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What do you mean 'meat' ET?

...and I'm not sure how I feel about scientists playing around with homegrown Alien lifeforms with deadly bacteria for innards - Last time I watched Alien Resurrection it did not end well.

I hope there is more to this NASA announcement personally.

 

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I saw a supposed advance leak from this earlier that said it's just weird bacteria found on Earth, as people have been guessing. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

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I saw a supposed advance leak from this earlier that said it's just weird bacteria found on Earth, as people have been guessing. Guess we'll find out soon enough.
It is, they just said so at NASA TV.

EDIT: Okay, a microbe with arsenic-based DNA? That's pretty cool, actually. Even if it's not an alien, it's still pretty weird.

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Well that's still cool on some level. If we continue to find very weird "extremophile" versions of life here on Earth then there will be better odds that similar types of non-carbon based alien life will be found out there.

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I, for one, welcome our arsenic eating bacterial overlords.

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Yeah, "Life" just got redefined. All livings being require phosphorous is a basic rule of biology. That has been proven wrong today. That's awesome.

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Yeah, "Life" just got redefined. All livings being require phosphorous is a basic rule of biology. That has been proven wrong today. That's awesome.
The fact that we see fundamental rules of science are "redefinable" gives me hope that other nagging rules like "can't go faster than the speed of light" will also be overcome at some point. We simply need to build engines that run on Dark Energy/Matter.

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That one thing I'd rather avoid to find.

So the press conference is over. Interesting find, for sure. What a lovely weird microbe they've go. Arsenic-based life. Who knew something like that could work?

So, good for NASA, they found something neat this time. All current books on biology just got outdated. Fun.

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I'm guessing that such a discovery also means that the notion of silicon substituting for carbon got a lot less science-fictiony.


 

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I'm guessing that such a discovery also means that the notion of silicon substituting for carbon got a lot less science-fictiony.
They actually mentioned that specific example as something that suddenly became a lot more plausible and worth looking into now that the substitution of one element for another has been observed.

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