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NASA Confirms Discovery of Organism With Phosphorus-Free DNA

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 2, 2010 @07:53AM from the well-it's-not-that-shaggy dept.

GNUALMAFUERTE writes "As we mentioned before, NASA's Department of Astrobiology had an important announcement to make today. It looks like Gizmodo was right. You can watch the presentation online right now. It looks like the bacteria in question uses arsenic as a phosphorus replacement in its DNA."

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Re:News flash: NASA discoveres there's life on ear by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-02 07:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Nice troll, dickwad.
Leave it to unimaginative dumb fucks like you to NOT find anything amazing about this.