NASA finally made their big announcement about alien life this afternoon: They were looking around some mud somewhere and found a microorganism that is made of arsenic instead of the usual stuff of which every other living thing on Earth is made. This means life can perhaps exist in many other ways we can't conceive, so there are probably a bunch of invisible arsenic dinosaur-like things walking on the Moon, and we didn't even know it. It may turn out there are intelligent beings with structures of PURE GOLD on other planets, when we were stupidly looking for worthless carbon-based humanoids all along. THERE IS A NEW FRONTIER: WE MUST VENTURE OUT AND KILL AND MAKE NECKLACES OUT OF THESE KIND GOLD-BEINGS.
Presumably phosphorus compounds are just as poisonous to these bacteria as arsenic compounds are to us. Which means the only thing keeping these creatures back was all the phosphate we were dumping into rivers and streams. Now that that's disappearing, I assume the bacteria will soon emerge and arsenate the whole world. Thanks, EPA.
Nah, that's what the dinosaurs used to say about mammals, before they blew themselves up with their iridium reactor. It didn't work then any better than it would work now. In fact, I suspect the great grandmother of Arsenic Sarah Palin has already been born.
That's an "Arse-based" life form.
are they sure it isn't mel gibson on a bender?
Presumably phosphorus compounds are just as poisonous to these bacteria as arsenic compounds are to us. Which means the only thing keeping these creatures back was all the phosphate we were dumping into rivers and streams. Now that that's disappearing, I assume the bacteria will soon emerge and arsenate the whole world. Thanks, EPA.
Nah, that's what the dinosaurs used to say about mammals, before they blew themselves up with their iridium reactor. It didn't work then any better than it would work now. In fact, I suspect the great grandmother of Arsenic Sarah Palin has already been born.
He's probably the only one of his colleagues who knew that arsenic is an element.
NASA speculates that no other planet has tea parties, fortunately.