New life found

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!BreadMaker3 Dec 2, 2010

So NASA is announcing today they discovered a new life form. Google it!
Vadan™ v2.0 Dec 2, 2010

Is it glman and pigy back gang interbred to create a super troll?
!BreadMaker3 Dec 2, 2010

Nah just bacteria with DNA made of arsenic, not phosphorus. Still interesting
FluffyRaptor Dec 2, 2010

Can't find it
ᏚᴡᴀᴍᴘᎠᴏɴᴋᴇʏ Dec 2, 2010

VADAN wrote:
Is it glman and pigy back gang interbred to create a super troll?

😹😹😹
Now that was hilarious!
(add) Bjorn Dec 2, 2010

That's dope!!
IIIXstress Dec 2, 2010

Interesting..not necessarily new life, just a new way life can form
JayDee Dec 2, 2010

Bacteria meh, you can read it on yahoo news.

I wish they would just show us some aliens or something.
mikeysee Dec 2, 2010

JayDee wrote:
Bacteria meh, you can read it on yahoo news.

I wish they would just show us some aliens or something.

i dont! then the universe will be ours for the picking! thats unless we destroy ourselves first
the Fish Dec 3, 2010

JayDee wrote:
Bacteria meh, you can read it on yahoo news.

I wish they would just show us some aliens or something.

I thought it was a hoax at first. But seriously, ALL life as we know it uses phosphorous to build DNA. Yeast, bacteria, mushrooms, jellyfish, fish, dogs, squid, plants, insects, etc. all have phosphorous in their DNA. All DNA is so similar that we can make puppies that glow in the dark by inserting jellyfish DNA. This is really a new life form (even though it's only a "bacteria"
✯REZ✯ Dec 3, 2010

Yeah it's pretty awesome. They said they are gonna have rewrite the books. I just took biology in college, interesting stuff, micro biologists are gonna be psyched for years.
Vadan™ v2.0 Dec 3, 2010

So this could potentially aid DNA rebuilding to help with currently inurable illnesses?
the Fish Dec 3, 2010

I don't think so, we know how to insert DNA into living things to give them new abilities which may cure currently incurable diseases. This discovery confirms a once fantastical thought that life could be based on something other than CHNOPS. This opens the door to the possibility that there could be life on other planets based on something other than what was created here.
Vadan™ v2.0 Dec 3, 2010

Ahh ok gotcha on that. But arsenic is a metalloid element right, not actual metal but has similar properties? How have they made it sustain lifeform? I'm gona have to google it
tomorrow.
the Fish Dec 3, 2010

Not up on my chemistry, but I'm pretty sure it has similar chemical properties due the same number of valence electrons. Any chem major wanna clear this up?
LoLwAiTwHaT Dec 3, 2010

So have we completely destroyed it yet? Only a matter of time
 mama tek Dec 3, 2010

I feel like we've spent so much time searching and speculating the existence of this very type of life form, it was only a matter of time. I just want to see moon and mars missions before I die.
Evil Joey Dec 3, 2010

VADAN wrote:
Is it glman and pigy back gang interbred to create a super troll?

if it was then we could hav a huge biohazard on our hands! 😱
Mr. Linderman Dec 3, 2010

🐱 mama tek wrote:
I feel like we've spent so much time searching and speculating the existence of this very type of life form, it was only a matter of time. I just want to see moon and mars missions before I die.

I seriously thought I was going to see a Uranus joke when I saw you posted lol