NASA Finds New Life

[Foxy Brown]

NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon and her team have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic for all its building blocks. 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.

[Tuffty]

Wow! I've often wondered about life elsewhere in space. I found it a redundant argument to say life can't exist in extreme environments from our own. Well, human life can't, yes. Doesn't mean that other life doesn't exist. Hell look at the animals living in the ocean. We sure can't survive under all that pressure, but look at the organisms that can.

Really fascinating news, anything to do with space just grabs my attention. I'd even say that there is another Earth like planet out there with human like organisms of the same genetic material as us, if maybe perhaps slightly different. Would they be less advanced than we are? More so? Are they equally clueless about what lies out there in the universe? Argh, it blows my mind thinking about it.

[jupreng]

Well, there are still a lot of information that we don't know about this universe...

[zeroyui]

So there mite be actual aliens?????somewhere????

[seggahme]

as i know, arsenicum has the same chemical properties as phosphorus (the same 15 group of periodic system of elements). so in media with deficiency of phosphorus it can be substitute by arsenicum.