The aliens are coming.Follow

I thought you were gonna use this clip.

Extremophiles are nothing new, bacteria that consume ******* are nothing new, ******* subbing for phosphorus in biochemical reactions is nothing new, people making crazy claims and connections from completely unrelated information is realllllly nothing new.


I am disappoint.

Geez. Haven't any of these guys ever watched Evolution before?

Life "as we know it" is a rather narrow spectrum. Of course, having said that it may be difficult to find something when we don't even know what it is, or how to find it...

If aliens ever really tried to contact us, it'd be through the internet. Then 4Chan would probably scare them off.

Any living organism using ******* as a building block in their DNA however is new. It's also rather important. It shows that DNA does not necessarily require the components we thought it did. When Joe scientist looks at a planet through a telescope and doesn't find one of the components in abundance, or finds say, ******* oceans, it no longer means the planet is lifeless.

They've increased the quantity locations life could be found, significantly. We blacklist planets because of this stuff, now we know we can't.

It opens peoples minds. Silicon for example, silicon oxide respiration requires high temperatures (the way we view respiration anyways, I don't see why it requires a gas at all), and silicon requires higher energy to make bonds. So those planets we're blacklisting for being too close to their stars, yeah, they have high temps which translate into high energy. Not saying there are silicon armies out there, but there are limitless environments out there and there very well may be some where silicon life would be the most efficient form.

DeBeers is hard at work figuring out how to conquer and claim this world before anyone else can touch it. And then raise the price of diamonds, citing scarcity.