Kiss my Arsenic!

[Big Rick Cook]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/1..._n_791094.html

Well I'll be damned.

[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: Kiss my Arsenic!

I like how they always seem amazed that life can adapt and form in irregular conditions, and be suprised every time they find life growing in a place they thought couldnt support life.

Every day must be an adventure at Nasa.

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: Kiss my Arsenic!

This is slightly more important than most of those "discoveries."

[American Hero]

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This changes everything.

[IamPinhead]

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This means that there is life completely beyond what we thought possible. Way to **** on our parade.

[Riotsword]

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Hey, for all we know there are really Metroids out there somewhere.



Or not. Who knows!

[Cutter De Blanc]

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[mr.kraken]

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This is amazing.

[peachy]

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This is slightly more important than most of those "discoveries."

Isn't all that happened is some scientist put **** into some aresenic poisoned waters because it can replace phosphate or something on the molecular level (the reason why its poisonous) and it turned out that it actually can replace the phosphate on the molecular level and the living **** they put into the poison **** turned into living poison ****?

So NASA is like "well before this discovery most scientists have concluded that extraterrestrial life probably exists, but after this discovery- hoo boy- most scientists have concluded that extraterrestrial life probably exists" and the crowd goes wild.

Wake me up when they invent jetpacks or something useful for chrissake.

[Alex]

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Yet another scientific issue the general public cannot comprehend enough to make educated statements about! Yay! Global warming ha! Why's it so coold outsiiiide? ****ing government.

[Caciss]

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there is a difference between a hypothesis and actually seeing it in action

[Perversion]

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there is a difference between a hypothesis and actually seeing it in action

That kinda reminds me of some of the regulars here.

[John Mora]

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Isn't all that happened is some scientist put **** into some aresenic poisoned waters because it can replace phosphate or something on the molecular level (the reason why its poisonous) and it turned out that it actually can replace the phosphate on the molecular level and the living **** they put into the poison **** turned into living poison ****?

Your posts would be more useful if the important points weren't covered up by the swear word filter. :3

[peachy]

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Yet another scientific issue the general public cannot comprehend enough to make educated statements about! Yay! Global warming ha! Why's it so coold outsiiiide? ****ing government.

It's a scientific discovery that, while its future ramifications may help science and be really cool and all of that, has absolutely no relevance to society or the general public.

When you look at this discovery and think about it critically, along the lines of "what does this mean" what you come up with is essentially the same thing I outlined- "before this discovery most scientists have concluded that extraterrestrial life probably exists, but after this discovery- hoo boy- most scientists have concluded that extraterrestrial life probably exists".

Yes, now scientists and whatever searching for extraterrestrial life know for certain that it is possible to have life based on different ****, but in the really grand picture of things for the right now, it makes absolutely no difference to anything.

Wake me up when I can eat a cheeseburger on the moon or something.

[Big Rick Cook]

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I just thought it was a very interesting find. It's not every day (maybe every other day) that a discovery of this nature is made, where one of the six essential elements of our carbon-based lives can be supplanted by another substance and used as a building block in its own genetic makeup. Despite arsenic being a poisonous substance and deadly to much of life on this planet, it's proven to be useful in propagating life.