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[Anonymous No.2143670]

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>>New organism found capable of creating proteins, cell membrane, RNA, and DNA out of Arsenic.
This essentially is scientifically groundbreaking news. It to me also spells all religion as complete bogus and fuck you world, why the fuck not. Also increases chances of finding alien life in the universe by a large percentage.
Called GFAJ-1 for now

[Anonymous No.2143678]

BUT WHERE DID ORGANISM COME FROM

[Anonymous No.2143684]

Old news, they found bacteria living on arsenic back in... 2008 I believe

[Anonymous No.2143685]

>>2143678
IT CAIM FRUM OOOOOOOOTER SPAIS

[Anonymous No.2143699]

Mono lake California>>2143684
They found organisms breathing arsenic, never making DNA PROTEINS>>2143684
RNA AND CELLULAR MEMBRANE out of arsenic, nice try.

[Anonymous No.2143705]

>>2143684

Oh here we go.

[Anonymous No.2143711]

>>2143684
This isn't bacteria living on arsenic. This is bacteria partially made from arsenic. It is massive news. It increases our best estimate of the average frequency of life forming.

[Anonymous No.2143732]

>>2143699
Same lake though, are we sure they didn't study the same bacteria?

[Anonymous No.2143738]

>>2143732
interesting question, I wonder if they would release that information or not, seeing as it would make them look oblivious?

[Anonymous No.2143747]

>>2143732
>implying NASA are a bunch of 5 year olds

[Anonymous No.2143761]

>>2143747
A friend of mine works at NASA, he's an 19 year old weeaboo.

[Anonymous No.2143767]

>>2143761
it help desk?

[Anonymous No.2143783]

>>2143761

19 year old guy working at NASA? I'll marry him.

[Anonymous No.2143777]

>>2143767
I really hope so.

[Anonymous No.2143787]

>>2143699
I think they mentioned they have a arsenic based replacement for ATP

[Anonymous No.2143788]

Another death blow to creationism.

As if they weren't already walking around as zombies.

[Anonymous No.2143811]

life finds a way

[Anonymous No.2143824]

>>2143670
P more common than As. So it doesn't really increase the chance of finding life by much.

[Anonymous No.2143833]

I watched the interview with some lady on CNN and it was disgusting how carefully she had to pick and choose her words in order to keep it in the "good PR" range as to not say anything to step on anyone's toes.

[Anonymous No.2143856]

>ITT: We troll with user comments on this story from fox news.

Didn't need a press conference to declare alien life in California. I've known that all along.

[Anonymous No.2143857]

>>2143824
Well yes... that's one of the reasons phosphorus is so much more common. The other being the temperature ranges in which its bonds are stable. The point is that life is chemically simple enough that it isn't locked into a fixed, particular form. So long as the chemistry works more or less the same, biological function is theoretically possible.

[Anonymous No.2143864]

This was nothing more than a "palms out" gesture by the welfare recipient's at NASA, looking for more money in their budgets. Want to ax some money from the budget? It doesn't have to come from police or schools, as politicians are so fond of implying! Simply ax the wasteful spending of the scientifically curious. Their curiosity need not be sated by our tax dollars...

[Anonymous No.2143865]

i say destroy it before it can threaten our way of life

[Anonymous No.2143901]

Anything worth researching is done with private investors, companies, corporations, etc and not the scientists on the public welfare. No, they are not the ones who provide me with the computer, cell-phone and car! The serious and useful technological innovations are not found by those thousands of scientists on the public grants.

[Anonymous No.2143922]

Everyone here needs to read this article. Once you take away all the hype, it turns out this discovery wasn't so special as NASA made it out to be.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/12/02/mono-lake-bacteria-build-their-dna-usi
ng-arsenic-and-no-this-isnt-about-aliens/