Ladies and Gentleman....Life has just broadened its definition.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105811-NASA-Discovers-New-Life


http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/astrobiology_toxic_chemical.html

Bacterial life that has as a building block base...arsenic.

interesting

I bet this is a product of human design (accidental or otherwise). We will know once we sequence the DNA.

Champion wrote:I bet this is a product of human design (accidental or otherwise). We will know once we sequence the DNA.

They found it in a California lake. So they say.

Aureus wrote:I also think the writer makes this seem much more dire than it is

Every single research for life outside, and INSIDE this planet has been parametered(no time to see if this is a correct word) by certain elements, nominatelly the six building blocks of life we grew used to. Arsenic is to life, what a car is to a deer. Never ever would it cross anyones mind to find a living being BASED on arsenic. This is like finding creatures living in a sea of lava. Completely new information and a reshape of search and study of life.

Fascinating, finding something like that right here in our soil, it just an example how less we actually know about life.