the speculist, from Gizmodo: --- hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything. 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. We knew that there were bacteria that processed arsenic, but this bacteria--discovered in the poisonous Mono Lake, California--is actually made of arsenic. The phosphorus is absent from its DNA. The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding beings in other planets that don't have to be like planet Earth.
NASA Scientist: Sir, we've run into a serious problem with the mission. These Nielsen ratings are the lowest ever. NASA Executive: Oh, my God! We've been beaten by "A Connie Chung Christmas!"
This is great news. I just hope I'm going to be around when we do find intelligent life form on another planet. That's why I love the movie Contact so much.
I hope I am not. Us finding intelligent life from another planet most likely means some aliens with super advanced technology show up on earth, and the probable outcomes of that are not good.
I hope there is such alien species such as these. The possibility could be endless. There's so much we still don't know about.
I'm not dismissing there would be such a hostile alien species. Hostile species usually I believe won't be building such technology. The one we will meet would be more to the explorer and scientific kind of intelligent species.
