[MD] NASA discovers New Life!

[Ian Glendinning]

Just not in the least surprising ....

These are only platypi because dummies fall for simplistic golden
rules like "mammals don't have beaks or lay eggs".

Or in this case life as we know it is formed of (only) carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur and phosphorus, and forget the "as
we know it" qualifier.

Ian

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:07 AM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Marsha,
>
> Yeah, interesting.  Arsenic is similar to phosphorous, but obviously not as
> well suited to the evolution of life.  It is always nice to see the
> platypuses of science.  People become amazed because they are so entrench in
> a certain way of thinking, that they see it as some kind of revolution.
>  Such is the behavior to seemingly static concepts.  There are many more
> types of bacteria than we have currently identified, many more.
>
> Once it is shown that DNA came from outer-space (just a matter of time),
> then we'll have to rethink some of our creationist stories.
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:17 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> FYI
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>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/02/nasa-new-life-arsenic-bacteria_n_791094.html?view=print
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