NASA: Evidence of extraterrestrial life

[IronMaxipad]

[Drachen]

Lame, so lame.

Like I said, pessimistic.

I disagree. It is possible that my view is a little colored though. I watched a history (or discovery channel) special about a group of scientists who are searching for a shadow biosphere. Basically the idea behind this shadow biosphere is that the beginnings of life started back when the first amino acids were combining into the first proteins in the primordial ooze. From that first combination everything that you see around you has sprung. Well these researchers and scientists started wondering "if it happened once, could it have happened multiple times?" Then they started searching for offspring from this second (or third . . .) separate combination (i.e. organisms which share the earth with us whose evolutionary history is 100% separate from our evolutionary tree). On this show, they showed a female scientist who had found these bacteria and how they continued to flourish at many 100's of thousands of times the arsenic concentration which any previously known living thing could withstand.
I remember thinking this is awesome, a completely separate evolutionary tree, I hope to hear more about it.

[lefty]

Meh...

[CosmicCowboy]

Your really digging deep to try and tie me in with the creationist. You must have all your Bible thumper smack links on bookmark and your eager to use them. I feel you brah you need to release that built up energy someone gets when they havent had any physical contact with the opposite sex in over 6 months...been there, done that.


I already know your new to the debates and you don't read well if you did your post should have read...

"Wow! my bad! I read your takes on this subject and I had you all wrong"

Instead you go in an area that has nothing to do with NASA and by the time the next page comes along posters who are to lazy to read all the postings will just see me waxing your ass....while they assume I am the trouble maker and topic hijacker/ruinator when in fact ....I only post one thought and merely replied to begin addressed to.
Am I wrong to reply to a poster who calls me out? Is it wrong to belittle this person if I happen to have the skills and knowledge about a certain subject that it boggles the minds of many? Am I to be penalized for my high IQ score? when is being at the top of your game a crime?

I know its hard for some of you to comprehend but there are people who don;t support Evolution and don't support the Bible.


It's not my fault you have no classification for me, that's your problem not mine.
Trust me,
they are many others out there who don't support the Bible and yet think the earth is not 4 Billion years old....it's not uncommon.

Mouse, you actually typed all that responding to BOUTONS?

the dudes ing nuts.

[Phenomanul]

Silicon, Sulfur or Nitrogen based life-forms?

Life-forms without RNA/DNA?

[Phenomanul]

NV.... Arsenic based... (incorporates the Arsenic into DNA instead of Phosphorus...)

I take it the microbe is a poison to humans...

[mouse]

Mouse, you actually typed all that responding to BOUTONS?

the dudes ing nuts.

If we all were to judge posters on how smart they are before responding to them the club would have no traffic.

[mouse]

Much ado about nothing

Johnny Luna a friend of mine just did a trailer and Much ado about nothing was changed to.

http://www.facebook.com/MAllenArt#!/...65486863468377
A buddy of mine made a short film about that.

[Sisk]

So... anyone want to sum up exactly what was announced? Haven't heard a thing about it tbh.. so it must've not been too exciting

[RandomGuy]

NV.... Arsenic based... (incorporates the Arsenic into DNA instead of Phosphorus...)

I take it the microbe is a poison to humans...

No not really. The arsenic is bound up in its DNA molecule. Probably might not even technically be "DNA", but I don't have the organic chemistry background to name it specifically. This might even alter what "organic chemistry" means.

Although the news bit I looked at said that this was life that arose seperately from phosphorus-based DNA forms, I would be willing to bet it evolved there out of previous life that used phosphorus, and that at some point during the build up of arsenic in the water, the chemical transformation just happened. Evolution is a very powerful force for change in organisms when environments change like that.