Thursday, December 02, 2010

Life as We Don't Know It

NASA Finds New Life: "At their conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic. 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.

But not this one. This one is completely different."

2 comments:

Karin said...

Not clear: did they find this thing on Earth or in outer space somewhere?

mybillcrider said...

Right here on Earth, in a lake.