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California Lake's Arsenic Hints At a Shadow Biosphere
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."
Can we eat them and are they tasty?
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
I think you accidentally a word ?
Or even worse, Carbon Dioxide, the Antichrist of the 21st century.
Don't you hate when someone forks a project and then forgets about it, leaving an odd little version buried in an obscure corner?
Super rodents? I don't believe in them.
Sewage Treatment Facilities - "Our duty is clear."
Damned open source projects. They didn't like the carbon license, so they made their own.
Next thing they'll be telling us, humans are a fork of monkeys.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Goes and hide under a unixified rock now ...
No, there was no issue with the carbon license. It was a tax issue, the carbon tax.
Middle age will do that to ya
Table-ized A.I.
Not worthy of Slashdot? ROFL. You must be have been asleep for the last 10 years.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
God: let there be man!
Secretary: god, R&D's on the other line, they're saying they made a new breakthrough.
God: what kind of breakthrough?
Secretary: apparently, phosphorus is better than arsenic and it's less polluting. They're saying that the efficiency of ATP alone is worth the transition.
God: medamnit, why didn't they get this to me sooner, I just finished breathing life into this guy. Now what am I supposed to do with poor Adamus?
Secretary: well, our lawyers did some digging and found that the name infringes on some obscure company that caught wind of the project and are already demanding royalties. That, and the EPA is starting to regulate arsenic more vigorously.
God: *sigh* time to make some cutbacks *pumps shotgun*
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No, here in California, we are smart enough to recognize that the Arsenic in the lake is naturally occurring, and is therefor healthy. No doubt one of our enterprising vegans will be bottling it and selling it with a big 'organic' label strung across the front.
ALF
Did anyone else click on this thinking it was a story about a "shadow BIOS"? I thought that "California Lake" must be some sort of software company and "Arsenic" was the name of the program they developed to detect a "shadow BIOS".
"Markedly unstable" = /exploding/ poison super rats ?
That'd be fantastic.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is insufficiently documented.
I hope you realize that technically a bitch is a female dog, therefore your onomatopoeiae do not fit the metaphor.
That was too insightful a post to have needed to post anonymously.
From which we deduce that the poster just doesn't want to bother with a login, or already used a mod point on this story.
From the lack of dust on the monitor, we can further deduce that the poster keeps too busy to gather dust; and based on the IP address, packet history, and the traces of clay particles detectible on the third line of the post — a rare form of clay used only by coroners, biologists, and the Puppet Master — we know the poster is a biologist employed by UCLA and posting from the shores of Mono Lake itself. Though wholly unnecessary, further proof of the last deduction is furnished by the dirt on the reverse side of the post, dirt which is clearly the residue of a mud splatter, and which contains lethal levels of arsenic.
Now, no modded post contains any trace of arsenic, nor any other indication that this poster has used a mod point on it, from which we can deduce that the poster does not have a Slashdot login at all, and is too busy to create one. But the amount of arsenic found on the post opens an appalling possibility — one that even I never considered! What if the poster was the murderer?
You see, he (or she, but women do not typically use Axe body spray, nor are they to be found on the Internets) does not even try to deny it! I have already taken the liberty of calling the gendarmes around Mono Lake, and given them a precise description of the individual. Soon, our deceased butler friend will have his justice.
For great justice!
i'd hit it so hard, if you pulled me out you'd be the king of britain [bash.org]