It is always something in the water.
Dammit!
I knew there was something wrong with California! That's why I never go into that state without my tinfoil hat and a HAZMAT suit!
Move along, nothing to see here. Please just look at my pen for a moment.
AAAAAHHHHH!!!
Cover your eyes!
COVER YOUR EYES!!!!
The emplicati'ons are astounding! What about Old lace...whats tha funny light on da pen fer?....
*FLASH*
intriguing
What I'd like to know is ... Why did Nasa make the announcement? Nasa is suppose to look beyond earth. Its like the CIA spying on Americans in America or the FBI working in Iraq.
Just a head scratcher for me.
And it makes me disappointed that Jupiter is not going to be consumed by monoliths and be our second sun.
What I'd like to know is ... Why did Nasa make the announcement? Nasa is suppose to look beyond earth. Its like the CIA spying on Americans in America or the FBI working in Iraq.
Just a head scratcher for me.
And it makes me disappointed that Jupiter is not going to be consumed by monoliths and be our second sun.
I think by seeing a terrestrial creature that thrives on something other than what common wisdom suggests, it expands the range of extraterrestrial planets which can support life of some sort.
It's not going to help when we build our ten-mile long colony ships to expand out into the wider galaxy, but it is interesting.
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What I'd like to know is ... Why did Nasa make the announcement? Nasa is suppose to look beyond earth. Its like the CIA spying on Americans in America or the FBI working in Iraq.
Just a head scratcher for me.
And it makes me disappointed that Jupiter is not going to be consumed by monoliths and be our second sun.
I think by seeing a terrestrial creature that thrives on something other than what common wisdom suggests, it expands the range of extraterrestrial planets which can support life of some sort.
It's not going to help when we build our ten-mile long colony ships to expand out into the wider galaxy, but it is interesting.
it may give us ideas of where to avoid.
So thats what the hippies evolved from.
What I'd like to know is ... Why did Nasa make the announcement? Nasa is suppose to look beyond earth...
NASA has an entire Earth Science division that does atmospheric, biospheric, and airborne science. ()
All those hi-tech satellites can't be looking at space all the time so why not turn them around and learn something that can greatly benefit people right now.
Excellent... Stage one is complete... full colonization to begun in... oh...
You do realize this is all made up. There are only about 100 people alive on the planet today who could verify this, and they are all in on it.
They just want more funding.
MMM this is interesting.
Grand Magus even if your correct let'em have their funding. I would rather have millions if not billions of our dollars go to actual scientific research than funding things like birth control in 3rd world countires or whatever cause is popular at the momment.
*begin sillyness*
As far as alien life I'm not to worried about it because they arn't the ones that kidnapped elvis and left a clone behind ala "The Last Starfighter" then their agents gave the idea to hollywood for a movie to make the idea seem even more implausable. *done being silly*
Seems interesting but not exactly earth shattering. The article linked (and the one it links too) seem to really go out of their way to draw bigger conclusions then seem warranted.
I mean the fact that some bacteria can adapt to arsenic and even use it in its building blocks is pretty impressive but we've seen something similar to this sort of thing before. There are bacteria that like to float on the surface of active volcano's for example and some of the really odd versions don't use the standard chemical components that the rest of life on earth has used.
Not to say that there is not some useful work being done here. My understanding is this arsenic Lake was not always this bad but has been substantially worsened comparatively recently by draining out much of the water water for human use. If so then it seems that life has moved into the newly opened niche and started to adapt. Impressive and informative - it would seem to help answer a puzzle about the Volcanic Bacteria I mention above - that bacteria was hypothesized to maybe be descendants of really ancient bacteria that might have survived from back when the world was young and much more volcanic. This arsenic loving life makes that hypothesis much less likely and instead its probably just some more mundane bacteria that's moved into the niche and swapped out the traditional building blocks of life for some new elements in order to adapt.
In other words this is worthwhile research but the fact that we have one more case confirming that life on this planet is amazingly adaptable does not necessarily tell us anything about what we might find in the great beyond. The reality is we are still on square one - the universe may be teeming with life of all kinds or we may manage to get out of this gravity well and find that no matter how far out or where we look there is no sign of life anywhere.
