[LibWhacker]

Title was longer than 100 characters. So I substituted commas for the throwaway words 'with' and 'that.' Hope that's OK!

[Williams]

Interesting, but then they discovered nothing elsewhere, just that some Earth bacteria can live in arsenic.

Fairly weak.

[Mobties]

I’m pretty sure I’ve smelled the odor of that bacteria on a New York City subway.

[justlurking]

Title was longer than 100 characters. So I substituted commas for the throwaway words 'with' and 'that.' Hope that's OK!

Oh no, here's comes the Title Police!

LibWhacker, you are hearby charged with violation of Chapter LXIV, Verse XLII of the Free Republic Posting Code:

1. Thou shalt not modify the title of an article.
2. An offense under this section is punishable by public haranguing.

Your sentence commences now.

[Daffynition]

Get our top investigator on it.

[fishtank]

How many completely different types of bacteria are there?

To me, that greatly reduces the possibility of evolution as an explanation for the origin of life....

[April Lexington]

How may tax dollars (er, I mean borrowed Chinese dollars) were spent on this worthless bit of assumption? Shut this crap down...

[LRS]

[Conservative Tsunami]

NASA desperately trying to validate its existence to Evolutionists.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Given that fact that bacteria can live in highly hostile environments and utilize sulfur and iron in place of oxygen, it would be surprising if there weren't some form of extraterrestrial life out there.

But bacteria are not the stuff of alien fantasies.

[Ancient Drive]

The Lord’s works are truly miraculous.

[DannyTN]

I call dibs on all the arsenic planets.

[Blueflag]

Clearly this article was written without a clue. To wit: “... do not have phosphorus in the atmosphere.”

Yeppers, who knew that *gaseous* phosphorous (or compounds thereof) has LONG been a recognized prerequisite for life?!?!

Hmmm. Let me think back to 9th grade biology. Nope. 10th grade chemistry? Nope.

Geesh. Where do they get these writers?

Here are some generally accepted facts: The phosphorus cycle differs from many other biogeochemical cycles because it does *NOT* involve the atmosphere in any significant way. Phosphorus and phosphorus-based compounds are usually solids at normal temperatures and pressuresfound on Earth, and any phosphorus in the atmosphere is usually only present in the form of dust particles.

Phosphorus - which is an essential nutrient - is usually found in the form of the phosphate ions (PO43- and HPO42-). It is an important component of nucleic acid molecules (DNA & RNA) and of the cellular energy carrier ATP. Phosphorus is also an important building block of bones and teeth, where it is found in the form of calcium phosphate.

Most phosphates originate as salts in ocean sediments or in rocks. Over time, geological uplift brings these sediments to the surface, and weathering releases the phosphate ions. Plants can then absorb these phosphates from the soil and use it in cellular processes. Phosphate taken up by plants may then be passed on to animals when the plant is consumed by herbivore that, in turn, may be consumed by carnivores. After death, the animal or plant decays, and the phosphates are returned to the soil by way of bacterial decomposition. Runoff from the land may carry leached phosphate back to the ocean, where it eventually enters sediments and is reincorporated into rock.

BTW, I did not bother to read the entire article posted here.

[epithermal]

THE INVASION HAS BEGUN, look at the vast areas they have taken:

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

They were wrong about bacteria not being able to survive in arsenic. This has nothing to do with extra-terrestrials in any way.

This should not raise any hopes of finding any extra-terrestrials. If there are life forms on other planets, they will likely be in a form that we don’t even recognize as life.

[texson66]

But how will this help build up the muslims self-image????

[Scythian]

YAWN

51,318th alien life found announcement, god is dead, go ahead and vote for democrats, and on and on ....

[Interesting Times]

Here’s NASA’s “big story” about extraterrestrial life.

[eclecticEel]

NASA breathlessly announces they’ve found life on Earth!

[bvw]

I knew it was a trump. Look that word up. All the PR bluster of a big announcement. Stirring up the old black magic UFO fever!

An interesting announcement stunk up by the faux fanfare.

[SunkenCiv]

• NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2
• NASA to make MAJOR ALIENS REVELATION this week
• NASA's 'Extraterrestrial' Announcement Gets Blown Out of Proportion
• Life as we don't know it ... on Earth?
• NASA: Life in Space? Not Quite, but Life That Thrives on Arsenic

Thanks LibWhacker. Astrobiology, panspermia, arsenic, exobiology...

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