I fucking called it.
Also, apologies if this is old news or there’s another thread on it.
Don’t worry there’s going to be plenty of people who still believe our planet is the only one of trillions that can support life. :rolleyes:
I literally predicted this, I just can’t find the post.
NASA is so naive.
Why do you keep saying that? Many researchers at NASA and other respected organizations have assumed different kinds of life were possible for years. This is just the first one discovered.
Also I mentioned this a few hours ago in another thread.
Not from what I’ve seen. Plus, the article specifically said they just assumed life had to be exactly the same as here on earth.
Edit: Also, the arsenic reminds me of Evolution. (I mean the movie, with David Duchovny and the firetruck full of shampoo)
HERE is where I mentioned it earlier, and you can watch numerous youtube videos about how we are made of carbon and that we assumed silicon based life forms are likely as well, this is just another possibility that is now proved to exist.
Also it never says they assumed that they assumed life had to be exactly the same as here on earth. They can now look for different forms because they now know for sure different forms are possible.
We weren’t looking before because we weren’t yet sure others were possible. We thought they could be, but now we are sure.
I see your point.
It’s still kinda silly of them to just assume silicon and carbon are the only elements that work, of course. I could be utterly wrong here as well, of course.
Is it possible that these organisms came from a meteorite? I don’t think it is, but why would only this one creature thing evolve like this?
These types of creatures are called extremophiles. They evolve to live in conditions we consider extreme. Their very nature makes them suited to live in the environment they are currently in, so it is less likely they are out of this world in origin because they have developed to live in a very specific area of this planet.
Ah, I see. I think.
I’m only in 9th grade, so I don’t really know too much about science.
Nazi tanks, yes.
Sigh, like Max said, its just a form of ‘life’ that has adapted to the conditions.
Much like the Gamma based life now living in the CNPP.
No suprise honestly, and all the news sites saying ‘NASA have discovered aliens on earth’ are all batshit retarded.
no one with any amount of education ever assumed that 
well recently, i mean
They really are. Are they going to look at the Yellowstone hot springs and call the colorful bacteria living there aliens because they can survive in conditions hostile to most other lifeforms?
Life will find a way, and just because it adapts to harsh conditions, it doesn’t make it alien. Just different.
Did any of you see what those bacteria look like when they hit maturity?
Just sayin…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAD25s53wmE#t=78m0s
I encourage watching the WHOLE one and a half hours. It’s INCREDIBLY interesting, degrasse tyson is a legend ^________^
God he’s such a good speaker
I thought those were just radiotropic fungus?
And I’ll have to check that out whne I ahve time, siggs.
i fucking love that guy. he’s like a sassy black carl sagan. the book he wrote is excellent because it manages to explain things well and be entertaining but not oversimplify them.
Fucking agreed. He could probably read the goddamn phone book and make it sound interesting.
Ya Im watchin the whole thing
It’s nice that they’re uploading these videos to YouTube, there’s some really good ones on Richard Dawkins’ channel too with Lawrence Krauss etc.