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"The definition of life has just expanded"
scarred:
I thought it was a play on Arsenic and Old Lace?
pwhodges:
Dear old Terence Rattigan... - I did lighting for that as the house play one year at school (i.e. a very long time ago, using real rheostats).
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: tHEfOOL on 03 Dec 2010, 11:34 ---i know, it's just that this proves that there are other ways life could evolve, for all we know there could be another planet where all life evolved with arsenic instead of phosphorous, and that would be pretty coo but deadly for us
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Doesn't necessarily mean that either, since these organisms likely evolved from previous phosphorus organisms, which evolved in the standard Earth-like environment of...Earth. At best, this proves that life could continue in a phosphorus-free, arsenic-rich environment since, uh...that's exactly what happened.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 03 Dec 2010, 06:16 ---Arsenic based sludge discovered, will marry before Joe Hocking.
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Only in states that allow single-sex marriage... :wink: Bacteria only have one sex, or no sex, depending on how you look at it.
KharBevNor:
Arsenic is the new phosphorous and sexlessness is the new sexy.
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