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Boule’tard Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Master of the Obvious Posts: 1620 Austin TX Gender:	NASA finds new form of life? 12/02/10 at 08:16:26 If this is true, it is pretty fascinating. http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life DNA that incorporates arsenic has been found in lake Mono, CA. The article is pretty light on details, and as a skeptic I would not be surprised to see this debunked. And we know life can adapt to toxic conditions, but this is different.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: NASA finds new form of life? Reply #1 - 12/02/10 at 08:52:35 There are tube worms that live on the ocean floor that live in extreme heat & a constant flow of toxic mess. not sure theyre even carbon based, idk.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 29284 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: NASA finds new form of life? Reply #2 - 12/02/10 at 09:54:07 I love this quote from the comments section of the link... "NASA discovers new life form. Chinese scientists already working on ways to cook and eat it." ....
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mick Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Hell-bound Posts: 7323 Dayton Oregon Gender:	Re: NASA finds new form of life? Reply #3 - 12/02/10 at 14:04:50 Another nail in religions coffin.
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LostArtist Ex Member	Re: NASA finds new form of life? Reply #4 - 12/02/10 at 15:41:07 mick wrote on 12/02/10 at 14:04:50: Another nail in religions coffin. how??? are you that deluded with your hate for religion?
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LostArtist Ex Member	Re: NASA finds new form of life? Reply #5 - 12/02/10 at 15:42:12 religion has never claimed that life as we know it is the only form of life, that's science that claimed that
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Re: NASA finds new form of life?
Reply #6 - 12/02/10 at 16:52:37

Guys.. not at all.. the "as we know it" part has merely expanded to include a new element, one that's poisonous to other forms of life. We have known for a long time that life adapts to harsh conditions (like the sea vents JOG points out) but those bugs subsituting arsenic for phosphorus in their DNA.. that's pretty awesome.

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Oldfeller--FSO Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Hobby is now "concentrated neuropany" Posts: 12686 Fayetteville, NC Gender:	Re: NASA finds new form of life? Reply #7 - 12/02/10 at 17:19:11 Wonder how long it will be before it gets spliced into some food crop ... a la the BT gene spliced into broccoli to kill the caterpillars and worms that munched on it. Naw, that lettuce tastes funny to me ....
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Reply #8 - 12/03/10 at 14:56:20

Broadcasting to all Star Trek fans out there...

All you Trekkies, yo !

Have you already forgotten that wonderful episode in Series 1 (with Bill Shatner and Leonard Nimoy) where thay land on a planet where all life is based on silicium instead of carbon?
Where plants grow as crystals and sand is actually insects?

The authors realized that in the Table of Elements Silicium sits right under Carbon - hence it works just like carbon, chemically speaking, only that the "chemical offspring" will be different.
In our case, plants like crystals, flying sand and rock-like earthworms.

Here on our planet, our blood is red because hemoglobin is chemically based on iron.

But in mussels, octopus and squid, blood is based on copper.
They are much stronger, but run out of wind much earlier.
That is why a scuba diver will, if lucky, successfully "win" when wrestling an aggressive 5ft. squid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Squid
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p008py6f
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/species/Humboldt_Squid

So arsenic-based DNA? Why not ? After all, haven't we got poisonous plants from which we draw life-saving medicines?

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mpescatori Serious Thumper Offline Romanum Thumperium Cavalco, yeaaah !!! Posts: 3547 Rome, Italy Gender:	Re: NASA finds new form of life? Reply #9 - 12/03/10 at 14:59:29 I was so eager to post my own reply I did so before reading Bouletard's link. They too mention Star Trek... So, I'm not the only Trekkie on this Forum, eh ?
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: NASA finds new form of life? Reply #10 - 12/03/10 at 15:08:56 Ive been offered what some thot was good advice in letters written with a poison pen. It didnt kill me.
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