Arsenic-Eating Bacteria Opens New Possibilities for Alien Life

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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/arsenic-bacteria-alien-life-101202.html

 

[SuperFerret]

Wait... Life can exist outside the parameters that we assumed it couldn't!? *GASP!* I've only been saying this for YEARS!

 

[Kud-Dukan]

Very interesting news. It's one thing to assume that things like this could be possible, but having an example of it right here is something completely different.

 

[SuperFerret]

It's also another thing entirely to assume that it can't happen.

 

[Kud-Dukan]

It's also another thing entirely to assume that it can't happen.

I don't think the majority of scientists in this field have every assumed that it couldn't happen. They just had nothing to say on the subject since they have never seen it firsthand.

 

[SuperFerret]

There are still a ton of rule-outs based off of limited assumptions. The idea that we'd need to find water somewhere in order to find life is one. Just because it works on Earth doesn't mean it's how it always works.

 

[Prison Mike]

So this was the big news about alien life? Blah!

 

[chaseter]

We should all eat Arsenic to make sure we aren't aliens. Those that live will promptly be killed.

 

[JAK®]

Some people will never accept the idea of aliens unless you show them little green men. If you brought back bacteria from another planet, they will just say "Oh, so no intelligent life.'

 

[xisaacx]

Some people will never accept the idea of aliens unless you show them little green men. If you brought back bacteria from another planet, they will just say "Oh, so no intelligent life.'

People think small, they never see the bigger picture.

 

[SuperFerret]

Just like on Earth.

 

[Bim]

There are still a ton of rule-outs based off of limited assumptions. The idea that we'd need to find water somewhere in order to find life is one. Just because it works on Earth doesn't mean it's how it always works.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Pretty cool stuff. I already think/thought there's life elsewhere in the entirety of space so this discovery isn't as Earth-shattering for me as it is to some.

 

[Alex The Great]

I still think there's life on Jupiters Moon, Europa

 

[Arc-Light]

We should all eat Arsenic to make sure we aren't aliens. Those that live will promptly be killed.

I agree need to know which of us are pod or human............