NASA finds evidence of alien life, press conference at 2pm

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http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything.

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. Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic. All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the largest whale, share the same life stream. Our DNA blocks are all the same.
But not this one. This one is completely different. Discovered in the poisonous Mono Lake, California, this bacteria is made of arsenic, something that was thought to be completely impossible. While she and other scientists theorized that this could be possible, this is the first discovery. The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding beings in other planets that don't have to be like planet Earth.


No details have been disclosed about the origin or nature of this new life form. We will know more today at 2pm EST but, while this life hasn't been found in another planet, this discovery does indeed change everything we know about biology. I don't know about you but I've not been so excited about a bacteria since my STD tests came back clean. And that's without counting yesterday's announcement on the discovery of a massive number of red dwarf stars, which may harbor trillion of Earths.
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Nice. I'm sure fellow space junkies like myself will appreciate this.
 
How is finding something that is theoretically possible in a poison lake "Discovering Alien Life"?
 
So has it infected anyone yet? How long before Fox News tells everyone that Obama is ganna use this as a biological weapon against rich Americans?
 
Because most people argue that life cannot exist outside our planet because there is no suitable environment like ours. That's what the problem is, people assume that life is like ours, based on our same type of dna, requiring the same things to survive.

Well now we have proof that on our own planet a different dna structure exists, what's to say what's out there
 
trust NASA, that disregards all video evidence of UFO activity and say there's life on another planet. herp a derp
 
Alien in the sense that it is not connected to all other life in any way.

The article states and through other articles, every living organism from microscopic to humans are all based on the same structure. Alien just means different in this case? it can also be something that was attached to a meteor? we get thousands of space debris a day in our own country, imagine the whole world:dunno:
 
been following the updates this week at work... we even watched a documentary on aliens.. cant wait to see whats released
 
a·li·en (l-n, lyn)
adj.
1. Owing political allegiance to another country or government; foreign: alien residents.
2. Belonging to, characteristic of, or constituting another and very different place, society, or person; strange. See Synonyms at foreign.
3. Dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed, as in nature: emotions alien to her temperament.
n.
1. An unnaturalized foreign resident of a country. Also called noncitizen.
2. A person from another and very different family, people, or place.
3. A person who is not included in a group; an outsider.
4. A creature from outer space: a story about an invasion of aliens.
5. Ecology An organism, especially a plant or animal, that occurs in or is naturalized in a region to which it is not native.
tr.v. a·li·ened, a·li·en·ing, a·li·ens Law
To transfer (property) to another; alienate.
 
El Maestro said:
Alien doesn't mean E.T

Alien just means different ...basically.
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I though the official definition of the word ''alien'' was life outside our planet, wheter on other planets, asteorid or drifting in the void.

I mixed alien with extraterrestrial.
 
I fully believe there's life on other planets somewhere out there, and sure this is a very significant discovery, but why call it something it isn't (READ: Finding alien life)
 
That's awesome, possibility that an organism can survive in a hostile environemment! Oh man I want to be a spaceship captain soooo bad.
 
Epic_Velocity said:
I fully believe there's life on other planets somewhere out there, and sure this is a very significant discovery, but why call it something it isn't (READ: Finding alien life)
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well..it is actually finding alien life.

They found a different DNA structure that was thought to be impossible.

It is different...therefore alien.
 
everything thats not related to our DNA which every single life form on our planet has is considered alien, since its not the same as what we have, or anything else on this planet. making it alien. (alien means something that is different, not like aliens from out space pappin' you with space probes)
 
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