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NASA Has Found a New Life Form – On Earth!
The final frontier.
NASA will be making a major announcement at 2 pm today, but according to Gizmodo, the cat is already out of the bag. NASA scientists have found a new life form in California’s Mono Lake whose DNA is completely alien to any other life form on Earth.
Gizmodo reports, “NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA… 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.… But not this one.”
This is obviously a huge discovery that, as Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz says, “does indeed change everything we know about biology.” Add to that the fact that Jason Kottke believes NASA may have “discovered arsenic on Titan (the largest moon of Saturn) and maybe even detected chemical evidence of bacteria utilizing it for photosynthesis,” and we could be in for a mind blowing announcement about extraterrestrial life and the future of humans living in space. Maybe time to pop Wall-E in the DVD player to prepare the kids? Sure, we had to have seen this coming, but this soon? Unbelievable!
Photo: NASA
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[...] While typing this, I was distracted by an IM from a friend. He sent a very interesting article: NASA Has Found a New Life Form On Earth. Wow! Go [...]
Who Else Wants Barracuda Nuggets for Dinner? commented on Dec 02 10 at 3:34 pmjoe smith commented on Dec 02 10 at 1:02 pmthis is so incredible
Lance commented on Dec 02 10 at 1:05 pmComments: how soon before they can clone an Arsenian?
cdaus commented on Dec 02 10 at 1:27 pmComments Holy Guacamole Spoke
Andar commented on Dec 02 10 at 2:18 pmThe dominant lifeform.. 2 billion years from now..?
SnarkyMama commented on Dec 02 10 at 2:48 pm“Code Nimoy!”
Alex commented on Dec 02 10 at 2:59 pmVIDEO: NASA Footage of UFO Fleet Leaving Earth… Famed NASA Astronaut confirms Extraterrestrials are here… (VIDEO): Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell: The UFO crash in Roswell Dr. Edgar Mitchell… Pravda: Extraterrestrial Spaceships Land and Crash on Earth Regularly… Pope’s star watcher to visit Nasa (12th February 2009) and talk aliens:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2010/10/nasa-footage-of-ufo-fleet-leaving-earth.html
Nickrall commented on Dec 02 10 at 3:54 pmCommentsI always suspected Arsenio “Arsenic” Hall was an alien!
ChicaDificil commented on Dec 02 10 at 6:13 pmHahaha. Disappointed when the real news came out? No new form of life. The DNA is exactly the same, except for when scientists force it to use arsenic in the lab, in which case it doesn’t grow very well. Unique? Yes, based on current knowledge. Alien? Perhaps within a very elastic definition of the term. Unbelievable? Hardly.
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