http://www.stuff.co.nz/4418593/Arsenic-loving-bacteria-redefines-life
I for one welcome our new Arsenician overlords.
I for one welcome our new Arsenician overlords.
NASA's big announcement - Arsenic-loving bacteria
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Creatures that will kill us! 
Is that really a surprise? Almost anyone can alter a Wikipedia entry. It is a shame that so many people rely on it for "facts".
Big whoop, NASA. Big whoop.
Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh are running the World Wildlife Fund now?One of my best friends works for the World Wildlife Fund, and she claims that their official position is that this new arsenic creature is an abomination of nature and a threat to traditional American family values.
I tried to remain interested, but the woman announcing the discoveries was not a very good speaker and instantly transported me back to an incredibly boring and sleep-inducing biology lecture in a college classroom. But the findings are interesting.
Is that really a surprise? Almost anyone can alter a Wikipedia entry. It is a shame that so many people rely on it for "facts".
And it's still more accurate than the Encyclopedia Britannica, on average...
On topic, this is pretty cool news. It certainly raises the bar in terms of the realm of what's possible, anyway.
No, it's a big whoop if you work there, and read Arsenic Weekly.
A "mild whoop" would have been if they found living arsenic bacteria on Mars.
An "exciting whoop" would have been living anything on a moon other than ours.
A "big whoop" would have been actual comfirmation of something other than bacterial, living on one of the moons (or even in Mars is surface sand/dust).
A "mild whoop" would have been if they found living arsenic bacteria on Mars.
An "exciting whoop" would have been living anything on a moon other than ours.
A "big whoop" would have been actual comfirmation of something other than bacterial, living on one of the moons (or even in Mars is surface sand/dust).
So something that is entirely different from all known life is just blah to you?
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it."
This is an amazing find. Go science.
This is an amazing find. Go science.
It's a very big whoop for those who understand the implications and don't base their hopes for science on space alien movies.
It's NOT NEWS. We've alreayd heard this in variations before, from the hot springs on the ocean floor, to the lake full of (I forget what chemical), to what ever else I am forgetting. And it's not hte last time we're going to hear of it. This isn't press conference stuff, especially with two days notice. This is text scrawling on the bottom of the screen in tiny letters while REAL NEWS is being reported.
Finding life on Mars would've been a mild whoop?!
To reiterate: It is a big whoop, if you can understand it and its implications.
Mr Awe
This is totally unlike that.
This bacterium is unrelated to anything else on the planet. Read.
This bacterium is unrelated to anything else on the planet. Read.
What's it implying we didn't already know? Life can exist where and in places we didn't think it could before? You don't say.
Life will not be as we know it? You mean ... the universe won't be populated full of white Human people? You don't say.
Instead of reiterating "implications", how about enlightening?
And no, life on Mars wouldn't be a big whoop. It would be exciting, mind you. But ... so what?
Life will not be as we know it? You mean ... the universe won't be populated full of white Human people? You don't say.
Instead of reiterating "implications", how about enlightening?
And no, life on Mars wouldn't be a big whoop. It would be exciting, mind you. But ... so what?