BCM Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 oh who gives a fucking shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plstik Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 @babar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 This is wicked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoodie Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 i wonder how creationists will react to this. they hit us with peanut butter, we hit back with... a lake full of arsenic. fuck yeah. Don't worry, they will find something equally stupid as peanut butter to refute this. maybe they can go baptize themselves in the lake to celebrate the glory of god's creation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tidbit Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berk Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 News: There may be extra terrestrial life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GORDO Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 or not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acid1 Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Illegal aliens founds in California... what else is new? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
six Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Is that from Phase IV? Awesome movie, saw it when I was a kid and it had a profound impact on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxing Day Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 First i was like Now i'm like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 id would love to know. for all of you who think they are not here...what do you think the ufo phenomena is? 1. what are the millions of reports of spectacular lights zipping across the sky for the last six decades? 2. what are the countless day time reports from all walks of life and professions, of metallic looking disc shaped object flying around our skies maneuvering like no known aircraft? 3. how do you explain events such as "the pheonix lights", where thousands of people all report a "craft" as big as several football fields long, hovering over their city? 4. how do you explain all the nasa satellite and astronaut footage of lights zipping around space making right angle turns at thousand of kilometers per hour? these are basic questions that id love to hear your answers for, from all you who think we havent been visited Ball lightning 'may explain UFOs' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11877842 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 BREAKING NEWS: NASA Finds New Life At their conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today .. http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life wait wait, if the little critter even has anything that looks like DNA, we're not talking Abiogenesis. This report says they took fairly regular bacteria and force fed them Arsenic until they adopted it as part of their structure. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11886943 Thats hardly 'discovering a new life form' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementia Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Maybe the life forms were found on another planet/satellite, but our response is being tested by the announcement of a domestic discovery. At least then abiogenesis remains unique to Earth. This report says they took fairly regular bacteria and force fed them Arsenic until they adopted it as part of their structure.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11886943 Thats hardly 'discovering a new life form' Disappointing. Why bother calling it a "conference on astrobiology"? Future of life, sure. I'd be excited if this were a type of found extremophile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 mono lake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 *labcoat boner* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ominous Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 mono lake I've swum floated there. Didn't know it had so much arsenic, I took a gulp while trying to stabilize myself. Pretty disappointing news as expected.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 mono lake Pretty disappointing news as expected.... Pfft, you're disappointing news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba69 Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/12/02/mono-lake-bacteria-build-their-dna-using-arsenic-and-no-this-isnt-about-aliens/ interesting article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 so is it a new life form or one that adapted to outside influence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plstik Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 one can not just simply adapt to arsen to that level. So its a new lifeform. Would be interesting how the other cellular mechanisms look like: Membranestructure, Proteins, Amino Acids, Metabolism etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plstik Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 The results do nothing of the sort. For a start, the bacteria – a strain known as GFAJ-1 – don’t depend on arsenic. They still contain detectable levels of phosphorus in their molecules and they actually grow better on phosphorus if given the chance. It’s just that they might be able to do without this typically essential element – an extreme and impressive ability in itself. oops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 so is it a new life form or one that adapted to outside influence? They don't know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 could someone please make a graph about the posibble excitingness of this so i can better understand the news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 damn right about now playing thread. it should be renamed, the "hi i'm drunk and bored and pretending to hope that ppl care about what i'm listening to thread." Perhaps though if we could somehow go through that thread and compile everything that has been listed by user, we could get some idea of the flavours in the lives of users. Oh god was going to write something more but the dog in the house behind is high pitch moaning and it's drilling a hole into my sanity. bie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 from the comments for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFAJ-1 on wiki (yeah, super-reliable source, i know): Somewhere Wolfe-Simon made the comment that she already has 14 other cultures from Mono Lake growing in arsenic. At present she doesn't know if any of these are different microbes than GFJA-1, but if they are then we would eventually need an article for the larger category of life. i find this very exciting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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