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California Lake's Arsenic Hints At a Shadow Biosphere

Posted by timothy on from the some-more-tea-dear? dept.

MichaelSmith writes "Scientists think that there might be arsenic-based life in Mono Lake, California. If it's shown to exist, such life could have evolved independently from our own, or it could have forked from ours at a very early stage."

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  1. Re:Arsenic life forms? by tqk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I, for one, welcome our new ...

    Damn, if that (so to speak) joke wasn't old last century, it sure is now. Please shoot yourself. Thanks.

    Ya know, gun controls limit fools from their most effective path to a Darwin Award. Why'd anyone want to do that?!?

    NRA, I'll licence the idea to you for a cut.

    Sometimes on a /. post, you never know where you'll end up. I'll go replay Gladiator now, bye.

    --
    "Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit ..." -- Pink Floyd.
  2. Re:This is sheer speculation so far! by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And by that I mean, I am the one who is bored. I knew of the possibility of life based on different chemistry when I was 10 years old. I am quite a bit older than that now. So show me something new already. Until you do, YOU are being boring.