Dec 2 2010NASA's Press Conference On Alien Life
SPOILER: it's on earth, in a poisonous lake here in California. Wait, what?! BOOOOOOOOO!! I was hoping for some of those bug-eyed bastards with the glowing fingers and androgynous nether-regions. You know -- some sessy-ass aliens.
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.
Like NASA's Ed Weiler says: "The definition of life has just expanded."NASA's geobiologist Pamela Conrad thinks that the discovery is huge and "phenomenal," comparing it to the Star Trek episode in which the Enterprise crew finds Horta, a silicon-based alien life form that can't be detected with tricorders because it wasn't carbon-based. It's like saying that we may be looking for new life in the wrong places with the wrong methods.
Awesome, so we should start looking for arsenic and other element-based lifeforms, instead of just phosphorus. Not to piss on any toes, but I would have already been doing that. Still, "the definition of life has just expanded", that's a really exciting notion. BUT AS SOON AS IT'S EXPANDED TO INCLUDE ROCKS SCIENCE IS DEAD TO ME.
NASA Finds New Life [gizmodo]
Thanks to Chris, &ndR3w-san, Enormosaurus, Amanda, Captain Cramp, gr3vr, Owen, R-Man Amazing, Peterman, jojo, Elizabeth, Alicia, Brandon, Eric, alyson, Matt, Andi, Alex, Gutteral Retch, Seth, Esteban, Dany, Leon, miko, Sean, coprohead, Nuclear Xmas, Etienne, cocoa and anybody who didn't include "NASA" or "alien" in their tip, who all had their fingers crossed for some serious Area 51 UFO declassifications. Ditto, guys. Mad booboo.
Reader Comments
1. todo - December 2, 2010 7:40 PM
FIRST
2. Jynx - December 2, 2010 7:41 PM
Aliens: Steal their technology and kill them all. In no particular order.
3. lolWoah - December 2, 2010 8:08 PM
We must consider them enemies
4. Spankythemonkey - December 2, 2010 8:24 PM
3rd thing from Reddit. Come on GW.
5. wtf - December 2, 2010 8:27 PM
what does this mean.
there are aliens on earth?
or just new species
i dont get it
6. your obviously a dumb bastard because you don't think like me - December 2, 2010 8:43 PM
I didn't read the article and never studied biology but clearly this proves beyond all doubt that evolution is true and if you disagree you are an idiot, bigot, racist, homophobe and should slapped with an ass-monkey's wiener across the face.
7. Hellhound - December 2, 2010 9:24 PM
Seen it on the NEWS.
8. Gir - December 2, 2010 9:29 PM
I know a lot of people whose building blocks are made of crap.
9. West - December 2, 2010 9:35 PM
Prob from calis waste dumpsite
10. Scopy - December 2, 2010 9:45 PM
Saw this on cnn.
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"wait is the press conference about life on saturn's moons next or what? am i in the wrong auditorium? "
Hahaha.
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20. Seth - December 3, 2010 8:23 AM
Freaking awesome news. I see aerospace news headlines all the time through my work, so I was following this announcement to-the-minute when it came around. Definitely a huge breakthrough that could potentially lead to the discovery of a Second Genesis.
VERY exciting.
Also, the shot of the bacteria looks like mint-flavored Corn Pops.
21. steve - December 3, 2010 8:56 AM
In your face carbon based lifeforms.... in your f'ing face!
22. Zaxxispaar - December 3, 2010 9:50 AM
stupid humans... so ignorant.
23. Zaxxispaar - December 3, 2010 9:56 AM
you dare believe that Humans are the only intelligent life on this planet? we've been among you for centuries, and have been here for centuries before. Evolution is a lie. Creationism is fictitious. You wouldn't begin to be able to comprehend the complications of this machine we call life.
24. phil - December 3, 2010 10:07 AM
this is not new information. NASA lied to us. Alien/Space documentaries on both Discovery Channel and History Channel have referenced Mono Lake in their shows to prove the extreme conditions in which life will always cling to the smallest opportunity.
25. satan wearing prada - December 3, 2010 10:16 AM
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26. Sally - December 3, 2010 11:00 AM
OLD!!! But who cares, GW makes it funny.
27. http://www.ConfessionsOfAManwhore.com - December 3, 2010 11:22 AM
This isn't old, it's new... what's old is that scientists have been predicting or guessing about the existance of life based on other elements for a while. This just confirms it. And it is HUGE...
And if God made life in his own image, what god made these... which are totally alien to all other forms of life on our planet? Makes you think.
28. Seth - December 3, 2010 11:50 AM
.... *sigh*. Really?
29. Shelbon - December 3, 2010 11:56 AM
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32. FreeDummy - December 3, 2010 12:23 PM
Spoiler:
It was us! We were the alien all along!
33. Reading is Sexy - December 3, 2010 2:20 PM
I've seen this before in a movie...
It's all about the acidity! It can only live in a narrow Ph level! Douse it in bleach or quicklime! Quick!!!
34. Ouch1109 - December 3, 2010 2:58 PM
And so begins the zombie apocalypse.
Who would've thought NASA started it?
35. Melisso - December 5, 2010 3:10 PM
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Of course there are aliens, we are not thaaaat special people, to be the only life in the stars, no.