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At 12/2/10 06:49 PM, lron wrote: What I think is cool is that the DNA is composed of the arsenic too, not just the atp (Well I guess its ana now, adenine triarsenic)

Arsenic compounds are indicated by "arsenide", so the arsenic equivalent of ATP would be ATA, or "adenosine triarsenide".

I swear i heard about this many years ago. Whatever, still pretty damn cool.

At 12/2/10 06:57 PM, Numbuh1Over0 wrote:

At 12/2/10 06:49 PM, lron wrote: What I think is cool is that the DNA is composed of the arsenic too, not just the atp (Well I guess its ana now, adenine triarsenic)

Arsenic compounds are indicated by "arsenide", so the arsenic equivalent of ATP would be ATA, or "adenosine triarsenide".

I was close enough.

This is going to open another entire branch of biology.

The bible never said anything about god creating arsenic-dwelling microbes...

This was a very interesting read. It's nice to see as technology advances we are actually discovering new life forms instead of finding new forms of entertainment. I hope they continue to find more. Unfortunately I wouldn't consider this an "alien life-form" of any sort as some people are calling it, but an interesting find nonetheless.

At 12/3/10 03:18 PM, AnalPenguinFarming wrote: Unfortunately I wouldn't consider this an "alien life-form" of any sort as some people are calling it, but an interesting find nonetheless.

it's not alien at all, it's very much earth-bound. but it proves that life can thrive even in what we would call "extreme" environments. we've already discovered so called "extremeofiles", bacteria and other small lifeforms that can live in very hostile environments, such as extreme heat and cold, for example.

what this discovery of the "arsenik-feeding" lifeform proves is that life itself can exist in forms we before though of as impossible. seeing as earth might be at least somewhat unique (???) in it's composure, and that it took several billion years to get to the point of a planet filled with life, this discovery implicates that we in the future might find life on other planets even if they aren't all that much like our own. and since most of the universe is what we would call "a hostile environment", well, life may have found ways that we could never imagine, even in the oddest places! we'll see what the future holds.

the main reason i have for wanting to live as long as possible is to see "what happens next" in the human evolution/science/discovery field. this is by far the most intriguing part of humanity IMO.