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Nasa to make announcement about possible ET life find on Thursday

Alien life found on earth

Now all we have to do is find out if they are sentient and discover a way to communicate with them.


NASA, who have called a full scale press conference for tomorrow, have tried to keep their findings under wraps, though an accompanying scientific paper has been released to some journalists under embargo.

Skymania has not seen the paper and so has been free to do some detective work to discover what will be announced. Despite wild speculation on the internet, there is unlikely to be an announcement that extra-terrestrials have been discovered, for the reasons very well put forward by Stuart Atkinson’s Cumbrian Sky.

But our own investigations suggest that it follows a breakthrough in the discovery of microbes in a lake that get their energy from the usually poisonous arsenic. Experts say this shows they had a completely different origin to any other creature known on our planet. It means that life began not just once but at least twice on Earth.

A key scientist on NASA’s panel will be Dr Felisa Wolfe-Simon who has spent two years investigating Mono Lake, close to California’s Yosemite National Park. The lake has no outlet and has, over many millenia, built up one of the highest natural concentrations of arsenic on Earth.

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Solace said:
Now all we have to do is find out if they are sentient and discover a way to communicate with them.
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And then kill them.
 
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marduc said:
Arsenic is an element - not a chemical compound - this adds to the list of potential elements that can be core constituents of organic molecules (in this case DNA) - it does not say that certain compounds made of elements that are already known to be common to life can be tolerated, it adds a new element to the list of what to look for for life itself.
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Actually, it's precisely the opposite of this.

Arsenic and phosphorus are extremely similar. That is why arsenic is poisonous, because it takes the place of phosphorus in the body. What we have here is a form of life that has undoubtedly evolved from a typical, phosphorus based life-form while exposed to the arsenic-rich environment of Mono Lake.

This is not evidence of a second instance of abiogensis. This is a life form that evolved from the same instance of abiogenesis as every other organism on earth did. It's not even evidence that a second instance of abiogenesis is even possible.

All I see here is a castrated NASA trying to get attention by making a biological discovery into an "astro" biological discovery. It's absurd.

I mean, it's fun to dream about aliens, but please don't pretend it's science.
 
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Guy Incognito said:
Actually, it's precisely the opposite of this.

Arsenic and phosphorus are extremely similar. That is why arsenic is poisonous, because it takes the place of phosphorus in the body. What we have here is a form of life that has undoubtedly evolved from a typical, phosphorus based life-form while exposed to the arsenic-rich environment of Mono Lake.

This is not evidence of a second instance of abiogensis. This is a life form that evolved from the same instance of abiogenesis as every other organism on earth did. It's not even evidence that a second instance of abiogenesis is even possible.

All I see here is a castrated NASA trying to get attention by making a biological discovery into an "astro" biological discovery. It's absurd.

I mean, it's fun to dream about aliens, but please don't pretend it's science.
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Do you want a chance to reread what I said so you can pay attention to the specific wording of it (hint: compound versus element), and also look at what I was specifically replying to?

While you are at it, do you want a chance to reread the thread paying specific attention to what I have already posted?
 
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CompSciGuy said:
Maybe you should actually learn what "hard science" means before saying you're in favor of it. Anyway, a pretty huge discovery and well worth the "hype" for those that actually understand such things. The importance for NASA is pretty obvious and well explained as to why they would be involved in this kind of research. No need to get into the obvious, I think.
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Who are you referring to? If you're referring to me you're wrong. I find this fascinating and I have a science degree also. One of my businesses uses a lot of science to make money. I have to know a lot about bacteria, dieseases, animal husbandry etc.
 
I think this is way way way over blown. Life adapted to arsenic? Big whoop. Life has adapted to extreme cold, pressure, heat, and a whole host of conditions. So life found a way in an arsenic filled lake...big whoop. It means nothing other than bacteria adapted.

Did you know that microbial fungi can grow in jet fuel? Same principle. They adapted.

Oh, and this has nothing...absolutely nothing...to do with alien life. It was here on Earth, it originated here on Earth, it has nothing to do with anything outside of our atmosphere. Just over hyped non sense by an increasingly useless government agency.
 
ksu_aviator said:
I think this is way way way over blown. Life adapted to arsenic? Big whoop. Life has adapted to extreme cold, pressure, heat, and a whole host of conditions. So life found a way in an arsenic filled lake...big whoop. It means nothing other than bacteria adapted.

Did you know that microbial fungi can grow in jet fuel? Same principle. They adapted.

Oh, and this has nothing...absolutely nothing...to do with alien life. It was here on Earth, it originated here on Earth, it has nothing to do with anything outside of our atmosphere. Just over hyped non sense by an increasingly useless government agency.
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It goes beyond a simple adaption though, it involves a brand new element that can be a component of the DNA of viable replicating organisms, this is unheard of. This does have huge implications by showing that the necessary elements that may support life outside of our own planet is greater (and potentially much greater), and more flexible than previously thought.

Was it over hyped? yes - but it got serious hype above and beyond NASAs announcement, and the findings are true to what their release stated

Is this insignificant? absolutely not. This is very significant, just not as mind bogglingly significant as many speculated.
 
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Lets face the facts:

If there was or is alien lifeform on Mars, why have they not attempted to interfere with the human race millions of years ago ? It is not like Mars was created yestarday. If they really exist, they cant have just been born now. By the time major space equipment ( All the expensive stuff ) we would've atleast seen them.

The only time when we will get near finding proper, outer space lifeforms is when we create a method to travel much faster in space.
 
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Lets face the facts:

If there was or is alien lifeform on Mars, why have they not attempted to interfere with the human race millions of years ago ? It is not like Mars was created yestarday. If they really exist, they cant have just been born now. By the time major space equipment ( All the expensive stuff ) we would've atleast seen them.

The only time when we will get near finding proper, outer space lifeforms is when we create a method to travel much faster in space.
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That may be beyond the capabalities of single celled organisms.
 
I'm not sure if this has been cleared on the forum yet, cuz i just happened to browse the first couple pages, but the microbes found in California weren't 'Arsenic-based' they just used arsenic in substitute of phosphorus in their DNA.

*All life that we know of is Carbon-based. The discovery of an Arsenic-based lifeform would be earth-shattering.
 
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Twitter is going berserk tonight, with rumors that NASA is planning to announce the discovery of arsenic-based life on earth.
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We've got enough of those poisonous swines in Parliament!
 
Re: NASA to announce "major discovery" that could boost chances of life on other worl

An astrobiological Holy Grail discovery? No.

That said, it does conjure implications regarding biochemistry and adaptation.
 
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