New bacteria redefines life as we know it

[fido123]

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Cancer? If you're going to start talking about where it's better to put our money why not spend a minor fraction of the cost it would take to discover treatment and administer that treatment to end extreme hunger and morbid poverty? Why not even AIDS? Money has to be invested in multiple places. Also couldn't discoveries like these still help open up more avenues to perhaps help cure cancer.

Also this is awesome =U

[Garquillex]

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They need to find the cure to cancer. That should be number one priority. =/

Besides...Nasa...

Should be also looking for other planets to live on. What's with this ****?

It would be redundant and inefficient to put every scientist to work on one thing.
Do you know how far away any other potentially inhabitable planets other than Mars would be? -_-

Science is so misunderstood.

[Nyokou]

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Ah, the idiocy of people on FFR... never gets old.

Can't appreciate a good find, always gotta complain about some other **** that has nothing to do with the subject at hand. I'm with OneHandNow. It would be badass to have arsenic in my DNA.

[Reincarnate]

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This isn't *surprising* news, because in theory this should be expected.

But it's great to see reality pulling through.

[Mulie]

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Somehow I've found it very difficult to express my enthusiasm over this news.

It's very interesting. I'm glad this was posted. It's very good to know. (Not sarcasm.)

Whether life must be constructed of the same fundamental elements everywhere is actually relevant to some of the thoughts that have been occupying me of late.

[Reincarnate]

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The thing is that life can come in a variety of forms. There are many ways to build a system. Some may be harder to generate than others based on the environment.

[bender5]

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This isn't *surprising* news, because in theory this should be expected.

But it's great to see reality pulling through.

that's kinda where I was on the whole issue.

I read the article, and just smiled.

Obviously things can sustain under conditions that we can't, look at cave dwelling creatures that never see light, ever.

[Mulie]

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It's world-shattering news to a few and very surprising to other professionals, but not to the layperson.

Anyway, it's very significant; not that anyone's going to debate that. At least, I hope not.

[Cenright]

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I would say that it is significant in the scientific realm, but just because we never saw it before, does not mean that everything is turned on its ear. Yes, a big theory now has an exception, but for all we know, this can not be taken much further. Just because something is different, does not mean you can all of a sudden apply it to every other case and get a new awesome result.

People always want to sensationalize their news, and make it bigger than it is. Why? More research money. They are going to tell you all the things it COULD be used for, before they even test those things. Let's see what they can do with it first.

Interesting? Yes. Groundbreaking? Sure. Can be used to change all life as we know it? Probably not.

[Mulie]

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Before we get a bunch of misdirected rebuttals I just want to say no one has really made that claim. ("Can be used to change all life as we know it.")

[Andrew Mitchell]

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i was expecting religion to be brought into this lol, well done folks even though i must admit i do get a giggle out of existential angst

[who_cares973]

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Like rubix said it isn't anything I wasn't expecting but great to actually know its been found. Anyway great news is great put a smile on my face.

[Izzy]

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I can only hope this leads to great discovery. We could use some progress in understanding the universe about now.

[pokelda]

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The replies in this thread make me happy I visit this forum once a week or less.

based on the grand total of 1 reply.

edit went back and read the rest of the thread ur right banditcom

[ibooalot]

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the idiocy of people on FFR... Can't appreciate a good find.

wait what? the majority of the people in this thread are reacting very positively to the news ?_?

science aside, i think people are reacting to this with so much more interests and enthusiasm than other scientific discoveries because we are culturally fascinated by life. what with all the news stories of life sustainable planets thousands of light years away from us to the coverage of evidence of water existing on mars, its apparent that people want to know if we aren't alone in the universe.

the idea of replacing what is considered to be an essential element for life with a substitute does not just exist in the field of academic science, it has also been explored in our culture. Silicon based organisms, replacing carbon as the base element to create various biological chemicals, are featured in many sci fi novels and tv series. famous scientists are known to have given credence to this idea, commenting how life forms may have formed in drastically different ways than we may have thought. this is one of allures of scifi, that we can immerse ourselves in a fantasy universe while making it plausible enough to make the setting believable. the way i see it, I think this news is amazing because to see something from our fantasies come to life, now thats something truly out of this world.