NASA Finds New Life-Form

[Crow]

NASA has discovered a new life form, a bacteria called GFAJ-1 that is unlike anything currently living in planet Earth. It's capable of using arsenic to build its DNA, RNA, proteins, and cell membranes. This changes everything.

NASA is saying that this is "life as we do not know it". The reason is that 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.

That was true until today. In a surprising revelation, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe-Simon and her team have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today, working differently than the rest of the organisms in the planet. Instead of using phosphorus, the newly discovered microorganism—called GFAJ-1 and found in Mono Lake, California—uses the poisonous arsenic for its building blocks. Arsenic is an element poisonous to every other living creature in the planet except for a few specialized microscopic creatures.

http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life-completely-different-from-all-life-we-know


The nerd inside of me is squealing in joy...

 

[YanZZah]

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/dec/HQ_10-320_Toxic_Life.html

 

[genious]

Than i can think that X files TV show was a little true.

 

[Lars]

Awesome yet EPIC !

 

[DEXT3R]

Strange but Interesting...

 

[eViLrAcEr]

Someone change the topic:

NASA didn't "find" new lifeforms as the Gizmodo article suggests. They harvested them and then the bacteria "evolved".

 

[Shary Bhallu TC]

This shows that life on other planets might be radically different to life as we know it.

 

[Syavash]

Someone change the topic:

NASA didn't "find" new lifeforms as the Gizmodo article suggests. They harvested them and then the bacteria "evolved".

They did FIND it at the bottom of a lake in the US

The Space Agency had found bacteria in a poisonous lake in California with a previously unheard of DNA makeup. Instead of being comprised of the six building blocks of life that we previously believed to be the basis of every living thing, the DNA showed that the bacteria replaced one of the building blocks, phosphorus, with arsenic.

 

[XecutionerX]

yup astonishing discovery, almost all known multicellular organisms use phosphorus as the building blocks in DNA... but this bacteria uses arsenic which is almost poisonous to all living things, what a freaking discovery!.
anyways i always used to think why water and oxygen have to be the most basic indicator of life as all scientists i suppose postulate, surely an alien might have other elements as basic requirements!

 

[omarko]

We are gonna die.

 

[sliyk]

wow i didnt expect this to be at the bottom of a lake, but then again, underwater species dwarf the number of species on land by a huge percentage

 

[XxRebellionxX]

I Smell An Alien Invasion (sm1).....

 

[Crow]

Afzal is right...

In the laboratory, the researchers successfully grew microbes from the lake on a diet that was very lean on phosphorus, but included generous helpings of arsenic. When researchers removed the phosphorus and replaced it with arsenic the microbes continued to grow. Subsequent analyses indicated that the arsenic was being used to produce the building blocks of new GFAJ-1 cells.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/dec/HQ_10-320_Toxic_Life.html

Still cool though.

 

[Pakiyoungster]

read articles about teleportation guys, extremely amazing article.

 

[Syavash]

Afzal is right...


http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/dec/HQ_10-320_Toxic_Life.html

Still cool though.

NASA didn't "find" new lifeforms as the Gizmodo article suggests. They harvested them and then the bacteria "evolved".

He said that NASA didnt FIND the lifeforms, but they harvested them, whereas they didnt. They did find the lifeforms, what ur stating is basically an expirement NASA did AFTER finding the lifeforms to test it out for themselves.

 

[Crow]

He said that NASA didnt FIND the lifeforms, but they harvested them, whereas they didnt. They did find the lifeforms, what ur stating is basically an expirement NASA did AFTER finding the lifeforms to test it out for themselves.

Did you read what I quoted at all?

In the laboratory, the researchers successfully grew microbes from the lake on a diet that was very lean on phosphorus, but included generous helpings of arsenic.When researchers removed the phosphorus and replaced it with arsenic the microbes continued to grow. Subsequent analyses indicated that the arsenic was being used to produce the building blocks of new GFAJ-1 cells.

:/

 

[Khawaja]

Alien Alert!

Humans harvesting death

 

[Syavash]

Did you read what I quoted at all?

:/

*double facepalm* who knew english was so hard to understand.

 

[Kane]

talk about dead space...............lol!

 

[StrikerX]

omg 2012 is near ._. we'll all DIEEEEE