NASA Discovers New Life
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I think the point of this was to say that... It wasn't carbon-based?DannibalG36 said:
I don't get it to well, but from what I understand this is the big discovery that is implying we now have proof that life is possible in absolutely any way, shape or form.
Meh, this is okay. I mean, it's certainly huge and a great achievement for America (In your FACE Russia and China, we beat you too it, AGAIN!). I certainly hope that this will lead us to finding extra-terrestrial life.
Science isn't based on imagination, it's based on observations both direct and indirect. Not things that may be observed sometime in the future, but actual observations. Proof, if you will. The scientific community has never held the view you ascribe to it, i.e. that only carbon-based life is possible. But we could never assign any degree of likelihood to it because there had never been any observations, any proof, that it was out there. Now, bam, definite proof, and you're calling the scientific community stupid and narrow-minded for being, you know, scientific, and not just taking wild guesses then calling it a day.A Curious Fellow said:
We don't have any such proof, just evidence that suggests it. Shakily suggests it, as well (though than we've had)--I don't even know how you could prove, using physical evidence, that life is possible in absolutely any way, shape, or form other than finding every example of life that does come in all shapes and forms. Just because there has been a great deal of variety hardly means that the universal rule is variety, that's inductive thinking.Tdc2182 said:
So it took a discovery like this for them to figure out that maybe, just maybe, life forms on entirely different planets might not function in exactly the same way as those on this one?
Not to belittle this discovery, but am I the only one who thinks it's painfully stupid to not think like that before?
Not to belittle this discovery, but am I the only one who thinks it's painfully stupid to not think like that before?
It's totally new, and scientists are pretty excited about it.BehattedWanderer said:
I don't know if you understand that it isn't simply surviving off of arsenic, but is MADE OF arsenic, something previously never seen. It is in its DNA. It totally redefines what our understandings of the building blocks of life are, and gives us a reason to search for life outside of what we previously thought a habitable environment could be.
You know every time NASA is about to lose funding on something they seem to keep finding 'alien' life... on Earth.
This. is awesome.. Now we can re-"visit" all the previous places we have not searched for this very reason and possibly find something.
Blows my mind.
Blows my mind.
they just did....one of the main reasons people say aliens dont exist is because earth is the only planet that we know of that can support our life wither in water or not. this proves that there is another way to create life rather than just using what we are made of....this is proof that other things can create life when joined together. this is like realizing that there are more Lego's than the square and the rectangle and if arranged correctly can do the same thing. ....except these "extra pieces" are posinious to us...which is badJack and Calumon said:
I get the feeling people just read "the end of life as we know it" and assumed it was an apocalyptic announcement.
People, please read the whole article. It's just about discovering proof that lifeforms are capable of being stranger than just carbon-based, water-drinking, oxygen-breathing. It's a notion that has been discussed at length, but not proven until now. "End of life as we know it" means we should expand our definition of what constitues a living organism, and start searching our system for life that might be drastically different from ourselves.
Not once does NASA mention anything about the bacteria being dangerous.
People, please read the whole article. It's just about discovering proof that lifeforms are capable of being stranger than just carbon-based, water-drinking, oxygen-breathing. It's a notion that has been discussed at length, but not proven until now. "End of life as we know it" means we should expand our definition of what constitues a living organism, and start searching our system for life that might be drastically different from ourselves.
Not once does NASA mention anything about the bacteria being dangerous.
