How did they just announce this? I saw this on the Science Channel about a month or two ago. Someone was studying these microbiological lifeforms that could tolerate damn near any amount of arsenic in their environment.
[QUOTE=Spartan8907;26522421]How did they just announce this? I saw this on the Science Channel about a month or two ago. Someone was studying these microbiological lifeforms that could tolerate damn near any amount of arsenic in their environment.[/QUOTE]
Bad reading.
This bacteria has arsenic as it's base molecules, instead of phosphorshitthingyimbadwithnames.
Oh no, the aliens is going to blast us with TV remotes
Can someone explain what the difference of that DNA is and ours?
[QUOTE=General;26529136]Can someone explain what the difference of that DNA is and ours?[/QUOTE]
Our base has phosforshizzle in it, the new found bacertia has arsenic as one of the base components.
[QUOTE=General;26529136]Can someone explain what the difference of that DNA is and ours?[/QUOTE]
Instead of using phosphorus as an element in the structure it uses arsenic, which means no phosphorylated sugars in the chains.
Looks like NASA might be close to finding aliens.
[QUOTE=tier56;26535585]Looks like NASA might be close to finding aliens.[/QUOTE]
These aren't aliens in the traditional sense at all. It was called "alien DNA" because it's DNA structure is different from anything we've ever seen before.
Apparently when we were less evolved, we used Arsenic instead of phosphorus, then we evolved to use phosphorous because it became more readily available.
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