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"The definition of life has just expanded"
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 03 Dec 2010, 12:40 ---
--- Quote from: scarred on 03 Dec 2010, 12:33 ---I thought it was a play on Arsenic and Old Lace?
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It is but it can be both.
I was going to make a Runaways joke but I couldn't work out if JC had already made it so I guess I'm bailing.
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i don't read runaways
Jace:
--- 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
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Believe this is the plot of the movie Evolution.
Remember that movie? with David Duchovney and that black guy from MadTV (I think).
scarred:
and like 40 episodes of the x-files
LittleKey:
I think I heard somewhere that this organism they found still does use phosphorous, just that it subbed MOST of it out for arsenic. I could very well be wrong about that though!
I think this is an important discovery, but to me it's kind of like "Well... yeah, of course life can work differently than expected." It's just proof for something that's common sense in my mind.
snalin:
According to the article, it thrived even after the scientist-dudes removed all phosphorous from it's environment, so yeah.
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