What is/was NASA's big annoucement?

[charlotte49er]

We are not alone??

[CLTPanther]

I haven't seen exactly what they said, but I believe it was that someone at Stanford has discovered a bacteria or some such that was living off of arsenic rather than phospherous. Basically that life can exist in other ways than what we have thought and need to look for life outside our planet in more ways as well.

[Darth Urious]

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there is a thread on the Huddle about it already...

[TarPanther9180]

The Reapers are about to come out of hiding and invade again.

[The_Cannon]

Yea pretty much they found a bacteria in California that is made up of arsenic instead of phosphorous so its supposed to change how we think about biology...I for one DON'T think about biology. You can read a pretty good write up here

[Scrumtrilescent]

Well, I do.

[Happy Panther]

apparently in the microbiology world this is a massive discovery

[boo7382]

apparently in the microbiology world this is a massive discovery

hehehe I love your sig

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[CharlotteBeer.com]

Yea pretty much they found a bacteria in California that is made up of arsenic instead of phosphorous so its supposed to change how we think about biology...I for one DON'T think about biology.

I don't know why this cracks me up so much, but it does.

[o803oVaDeR]

I don't know why this cracks me up so much, but it does.

Same here. I just read his post to everyone here, because I was laughing about it so much.

[Dpantherman]

I still have no idea what any of it means. color me teh stoopid

[mav1234]

it's a pretty major thing. think of it like this: life requires certain building blocks based on what we knew. these building blocks seemed "non-negotiable", in other words, if a planetary body didnt have one of them, there was no point in looking for life.

that appears not to be the case with this finding; one of those building blocks was replaced by something else.

At least, that's how I understand it. Pretty cool.

[Epistaxis]

I don't think it should come as any surprise that life finds ways to make it happen, someway, somehow.

It is pretty cool.