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... without coming down and dealing with the nasty stomach cramps. Joel Send a noteboard - 02/12/2010 09:49:06 PM
Bah! Having read the exchange between Darth Katie and Lady Lorraine below I'm no longer nearly as impressed, sorry. Just another black smoker, IMHO, and not even that if it only started replacing phosphorous with arsenic under lab conditions; at least the smokers are natural. I mean, OK, it's cool that biologists were able to make an existing organism adapt so radically, and at the level of its DNA, but that's not nearly as impressive as a extraterrestrial life or even the completely new form of life this was billed as. It's not extraterrestrial and it's not new; it's just a freak grown in a test tube. If there are scientists on Ganymede or some place conducing biology experiments in a lab then, sure, maybe something like this exists there; otherwise I won't hold my breath.
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More Important Than Soccer: Completely new type of DNA discovered beetnemesis - 02/12/2010 04:48:51 PM 1760 Views
that is TOTALLY inappropriate LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 04:58:47 PM 972 Views
Of course there is... Jacob - 02/12/2010 05:02:30 PM 978 Views
I saw, I'm just not in the proper habit yet LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 05:35:33 PM 1068 Views
Crazy awesome. nossy - 02/12/2010 05:07:49 PM 1038 Views
Re: Crazy awesome. TaskmasterJack - 02/12/2010 10:32:56 PM 872 Views
It's confusing, that's for sure. nossy - 03/12/2010 02:01:11 AM 878 Views
lol, or maybe not nossy - 09/12/2010 07:49:19 PM 1250 Views
So the movie Evolution was real! Stephen - 02/12/2010 05:24:16 PM 958 Views
Nice reference, but not quite. TaskmasterJack - 02/12/2010 10:32:04 PM 919 Views
Thanks for clearing that up Stephen - 02/12/2010 11:23:36 PM 1016 Views
Wow. *NM* Gher - 02/12/2010 05:32:08 PM 547 Views
I love how it was found in a massively polluted lake beetnemesis - 02/12/2010 05:35:22 PM 889 Views
Dang. I thought it was naturally occurring. Missed the part where it was grown in a lab. Gher - 03/12/2010 02:16:16 AM 1053 Views
The answer to your question is: Pretty damn cool. *NM* Nate - 02/12/2010 05:33:54 PM 514 Views
Goddamnit I am SO PISSED that I have a meeting at 2!!! Darth_Katie - 02/12/2010 05:50:21 PM 861 Views
I won't pretend I know enough about biology to understand the impact of this ironclad - 02/12/2010 06:26:24 PM 1016 Views
It's like finding a type of rock that eats laughter beetnemesis - 02/12/2010 06:51:15 PM 864 Views
... without coming down and dealing with the nasty stomach cramps. Joel - 02/12/2010 09:49:06 PM 1094 Views
I think I had an ex once that was made of arsenic. *NM* Craig - 02/12/2010 07:10:57 PM 488 Views
Maris? *NM* ironclad - 02/12/2010 07:33:14 PM 530 Views
Well you are made of poison, so that makes sense. *NM* snoopcester - 02/12/2010 07:39:09 PM 503 Views
Curse you, poetic justice! Curse you! Craig - 04/12/2010 03:38:37 AM 1053 Views
So, is it an alien? Lordling - 02/12/2010 07:19:49 PM 1012 Views
I don't see why it couldn't be natural LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 07:22:49 PM 932 Views
They haven't mentioned anything saying it's not from Earth, I think beetnemesis - 02/12/2010 08:03:44 PM 1035 Views
It was funded by NASA, I think Darth_Katie - 02/12/2010 08:15:15 PM 1043 Views
lols. *NM* LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 08:17:40 PM 502 Views
The bacteria in question is part of a known lineage Darth_Katie - 02/12/2010 08:07:34 PM 1249 Views
see my note below LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 08:13:35 PM 1018 Views
Maybe Darth_Katie - 02/12/2010 08:23:16 PM 963 Views
it could be there are some in the lake naturally LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 09:00:42 PM 875 Views
Huh! I must have missed that part. *NM* Darth_Katie - 02/12/2010 09:05:15 PM 487 Views
No it isn't! snoopcester - 02/12/2010 07:39:34 PM 1025 Views
I really didn't understand that, either. jh - 04/12/2010 10:44:51 AM 1038 Views
So, apparently, this bacteria doesn't use arsneic for its DNA in its natural state? LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 08:06:02 PM 921 Views
While awesome, it's a bit of a problem. Ghavrel - 02/12/2010 09:04:22 PM 923 Views
Re: While awesome, it's a bit of a problem. TaskmasterJack - 02/12/2010 10:34:34 PM 866 Views
True, but I'm not "looking for" anything in particular, so I just like it *NM* LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 11:09:21 PM 523 Views
It's interesting, but not completely shocking BlackAdder - 02/12/2010 08:08:46 PM 1101 Views
Less cool a revelation than I was hoping, but certainly not a complete disappointment. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 02/12/2010 10:35:33 PM 482 Views
I don't understand why this is such a big deal. It always seemed common sense to me that there are Tashmere - 02/12/2010 10:40:22 PM 1060 Views
I think it just makes them happy that they can widen the parameters for life-sustaining planets. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 02/12/2010 11:00:31 PM 481 Views
yah. it's one thing to theorize, another thing to find something to hold true. LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 11:10:23 PM 932 Views
It's much more than an educated guess. Dreaded Anomaly - 02/12/2010 11:59:18 PM 1123 Views
You can't "know" from this distance. Tashmere - 03/12/2010 03:13:05 AM 838 Views
Why not? Isaac - 03/12/2010 04:42:15 AM 1113 Views
obviously you have not learned to look at the back label on the car *NM* LadyLorraine - 04/12/2010 07:04:42 PM 461 Views
Yes, we can. Dreaded Anomaly - 04/12/2010 06:04:48 PM 1268 Views
The problem probably is with me. Tashmere - 04/12/2010 08:00:56 PM 914 Views
No, they aren't. Dreaded Anomaly - 04/12/2010 10:01:25 PM 952 Views
Depends on how you view evidence, no? Nate - 05/12/2010 04:50:11 AM 1170 Views
There are correct and incorrect ways to view evidence. Dreaded Anomaly - 05/12/2010 05:42:41 AM 863 Views
Are you baiting me to bait you? Tashmere - 05/12/2010 06:41:49 AM 1125 Views
I'm just carrying on a conversation. Dreaded Anomaly - 05/12/2010 07:26:39 AM 1102 Views
Re: I'm just carrying on a conversation. Tashmere - 05/12/2010 07:08:04 PM 886 Views
Re: I'm just carrying on a conversation. Dreaded Anomaly - 05/12/2010 07:56:43 PM 1075 Views
Re: I'm just carrying on a conversation. Tashmere - 06/12/2010 03:15:37 AM 1043 Views
Re: I'm just carrying on a conversation. Dreaded Anomaly - 06/12/2010 09:18:51 PM 965 Views
Okay. Tashmere - 06/12/2010 11:22:44 PM 1116 Views
I made my students watch the NASA channel for over two hours today Larry - 02/12/2010 11:11:40 PM 838 Views
I watched that and was very intrigued Fox and Ravens - 03/12/2010 01:31:29 AM 785 Views
It's neat, but I object to the circus act Isaac - 03/12/2010 02:52:46 AM 1061 Views
yah, and it's kind of shooting themselves in the foot anyways LadyLorraine - 03/12/2010 09:10:21 AM 959 Views
xkcd ironclad - 03/12/2010 10:35:24 AM 1102 Views
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