oh lol damn my shit was skipping really bad then. Thats actually kind of crazy, thatd be like us finding out that gravity isnt pulling us down towards the earths core but actually into a black hole with reverse polarity in the earths atmosphere.
Well of course the wavy hair chick is trying to stress the importance of this discovery. She wants to keep her job.
Sigh… I wanted my intergalactic dino turds.
man she is really ranting though lol
Wow.
This is might actually be the most important scientific discovery in a good long while, certainly within my lifetime.
This changes pretty much everything we assume to be true about life, on this planet and others. It is incredible, and I hope people think long and hard about the implications.
Yeah, it pretty much changes the fact that we don’t need a planet even like ours in order to life to be there. We could have been looking in the wrong places the whole time. Well, not really the wrong places, but now we know that we don’t need planets to be similar to ours in order to have life on them.
Going to have to watch that again, some of it went straight over my head.
Would’ve been better if NASA just blurted out what they discovered. Thankfully it was ‘leaked’ beforehand.
if probability for life existing on a planet is 1/100000000000000 planets, and there are 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 planets in the universe, then there are gonna be quite a few planets that sustain life.
Absolutely correct. It changes everything. Where we look for life. What we look for. Our perception of places we’ve already been, which we’ve assumed to be barren. Our idea of what life requires in order to exist. Our very idea of what life is and what it can be.
Imagine. It is already commonly assumed that there is life elsewhere in the universe, maybe even intelligent life. It’s mathematically probable. That isn’t even factoring recent discoveries such as this one, which broadens the very definition of life, or that there is an incomprehensibly larger number of red dwarf stars in nearby elliptical galaxies than we previously thought. The odds are great and getting greater.
Does anyone have more info on how this new life form’s “DNA” works? For example, DNA uses ACGT as the basis for its genetic code. What are the building blocks for this arsenic based life form?
Slightly off topic, I lolled at the comments in the Wired Article where some ID nutjob was like “this is the final nail in the coffin for evolution!” SIGH. More like its another nail in the coffin for christianity. Once life on another planet is found, christianity will be pwned. No more of the retarded and arrogant “we are special” bullcrap. No, we are just a pale blue mother fucking dot. I’d love to see how the evangelicals will spin THAT one.
EDIT 2: This means that there could be life in our own backyard even! I’ve always thought it was cool that Europa could have a gigantic ocean beneath its ice cover, and how awesome would it be if there giant underwater life down there, such as cthulhu. But hell, based on this finding all of jupiter’s moons could have life. hell jupiter itself could sustain life.
This discovery is as huge as figuring out that earth is not flat. wow, i’m so giddy about this.
we spend all this money to find a god damn microbe? Find me some aliens with six tittes or gtfo. gdammit
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lol I was already laughing at written by Jesus
The Telegraph is writting better articles, lengthy too - ‘Alien life’ found on Earth by Nasa scientists - Telegraph
From The Telegraph article:
"Professor Colin Pillinger, who led the Beagle 2 Mars landing mission, said it was interesting development and proved that life is very adaptable. "
This seems to just about sum it up for me. Maybe there are plenty of practical uses for this discovery, but philosophically I don’t see how it’s huge news. I don’t think people realize just how young and inexact a lot of areas of science really are. Finding out that biologists and chemists didn’t know everything about lifeforms is expected.
It just seems incredibly short sighted of NASA to search for life based on the six components that WE base life on.
It never occurred to them that in the incalculable vastness of space that there might be lifeforms that exists beyond their predefined criteria??
For a bunch of brainiacs, that is really stupid and kind of arrogant: “Hmmm… interesting planet, BUT it doesn’t have oxygen or water, etc so life couldn’t possibly exist there. Moving on-- derp!”
to be fair, the article even says there already are lots of experts who believed there could be other forms of life out there. this is just the first time that there’s direct proof.
I’m going to have to side with NASA on this. Space is, to put it mildly, a pretty big place to search. You have to narrow the search down by some criteria or your just checking every planet one by one, Good luck with that. Starting with what you know to be possible is good search criteria, randomly adding things you don’t even think are possible would be wasting of money on an unheard of scale.
all this means is we should add arsenic to the mix, its still not proof for searching for other stuff that has shown no signs of supporting life.
Yep that’s the mostly logical thing to do. But they did make the point of mention that this discovery means they have to broaden their ideology of what life is, this conference felt more like cry for funding
I want to go to planet of the hot babes!!! NASA, TAKE ME THERE!!! I’ll Introduce them to my manhood and create a scientific wonder!!!
(Ofcourse there is life out there, there has to be!!!)