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12-02-2010 10:00 AM |
NASA finds new life form!
At a 2pm EST press conference later today, NASA is expected to announce that they have found an alien life form on Earth, in a lake in California (of all places).
Now before you go wrapping tinfoil around your head and holing up in a makeshift bunker with a rifle and an AM radio, the life form is a simple bacteria and it's being described as an "alien" - not like the blue-light special aliens of SKYLINE but more in the basic sense of the word: An organism that appears in a region to which it is not native.
NASA has not yet confirmed the bacteria is technically "alien" but are expected to speak more to its origins later today.
Has Steven Spielberg already optioned the life rights to the bacteria? No, not yet but this is truly science fiction come true. All Earthlings are made up of six basic elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. This new bacteria replaces phosphorus with arsenic, something that has never been seen before. It obviously proves that forms of life radically different than humans exist in our universe and, well, may be on their way here to battle for supremacy and suck our brains out.
Details on exactly how NASA came to find and document this new lifeform will be revealed later today. But if you've seen HUBBLE 3D, you know just how mindbendingly large the universe is and with this new discovery, it's hard not to think that movies we once thought of as science fiction could soon become science....non-fiction?
One thing is certain. While this life hasn’t been found in another planet, this discovery does indeed change everything we know about biology.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...inds-new-life/ |
