Alien life form 'is here on Earth'

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This is very interesting, and greatly increases the chances that life exists in other places in the universe. (and along with this the chance that intelligent life exists elsewhere too). I don’t take seriously though the idea in this report that this strange life-form may have originated somewhere else than the earth.)
 
mdgspencer said:
This is very interesting, and greatly increases the chances that life exists in other places in the universe. (and along with this the chance that intelligent life exists elsewhere too). I don’t take seriously though the idea in this report that this strange life-form may have originated somewhere else than the earth.)
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I’m not sure the report is saying life originated elsewhere. The wording is very poor, but I think what they were getting at is that the way those lifeforms developed and evolved in that particular lake are not like the same processes that went on in say a freshwater lake or in the sea. Afterall, something about those little creatures has to be unique since they are living in a lake full of arsenic, where other species wouldn’t be able to live at all.

I think discoveries like this here on earth allow astrobiologists and other scientists to expand their thinking on where possible celluar or microbial life could exist on other planets. It seems they are finding life in areas where nobody thought it could exist from deep sea trenches, next to thermal vents, in the deep freeze at the poles or in otherwise toxic places.

ChadS
 
Dr Wolfe-Simon has previously said of her research: “It may prove that there are other possibilities that are beyond our imagination. It opens the door for us to think about biology in ways we have never thought.
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Now they’re thinking outside the box! Watch, these scientists in billions of years from now will one day have all the answers, and watch, if the final conclusion is ‘God did it all, He is not limited to our rules and laws of nature, He is capable of creating life anywhere, etc etc’ I’m gonna be laughing (hopefully fingers crossed) from up in Heaven 😃
 
If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn’t really our civilization, but a gag we hoped they would like. Then we tell them to come back in twenty years to see our REAL civilization. After that, we start a crash program of coming up with an impressive new civilization. Either that, or just shoot down the aliens as they’re waving good-bye.

-Jack Handey
 
Windfish said:
skymania.com/wp/2010/11/alien-life-form-is-here-on-earth.html/

Sensation title, but the article explains that life emerged from a toxic lake. The microbes are based on arsenic, not the usual phosphorous.
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Hi, Windfish,

Thanks twice, for the link.

First, I think this article quietly enlarges on the present theory of evolution in a big way.
Second, the links at the bottom are to an Astronomy magazine and I’m an amateur astronomer. And, so, I have gone to one of those links and bookmarked it.

As far as the phosphorus foundation to DNA, I thought we were a carbon based life form?

God loves you,
Don
 
The article is out of date, it was speculating on an announcement that was going to be made today.

The actual announcement was that the took Microbes and managed to ween them off phosphorus and onto arsenic. One of the scientists commented that even after they were completely off phosphorus, they still did better when reintroduced to it, indicating there was still phosphorus in the makeup of the microbes. Interesting nonetheless, but not quite a second set of lifeforms.
 
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The article is out of date, it was speculating on an announcement that was going to be made today.

The actual announcement was that the took Microbes and managed to ween them off phosphorus and onto arsenic. One of the scientists commented that even after they were completely off phosphorus, they still did better when reintroduced to it, indicating there was still phosphorus in the makeup of the microbes. Interesting nonetheless, but not quite a second set of lifeforms.
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Hi, Nine_Two,

Thanks for posting this information. It does make a big difference.
I so wish that the American press would get things straight, the first time.

God loves you,
Don
 
Havard said:
If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn’t really our civilization, but a gag we hoped they would like. Then we tell them to come back in twenty years to see our REAL civilization. After that, we start a crash program of coming up with an impressive new civilization. Either that, or just shoot down the aliens as they’re waving good-bye.

-Jack Handey
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Then what are we going to do when the rest of their civilization realises what happened to their away team?:eek:
Didn’t think that last one all the way through eh?😃
 
donsnow said:
Hi, Nine_Two,

Thanks for posting this information. It does make a big difference.
I so wish that the American press would get things straight, the first time.

God loves you,
Don
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In fairness the the article said it was speculation, and the experiment in question was known about prior (I read that there have been a couple documentaries done on it).
 
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