[SunkenCiv]

from the FRchives:

• 'Arsenic-life' bacterium prefers phosphorus after all [10/09/2012]
• Backing off an arsenic-eating claim (NASA search for life) [12/17/2010]
• Scientists: NASA's alleged discovery of arsenic-based life is crap [12/08/2010]
• Life as we don't know it ... on Earth? [12/02/2010]
• NASA's 'Extraterrestrial' Announcement Gets Blown Out of Proportion [12/01/2010]

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• NASA: Life in Space? Not Quite, but Life That Thrives on Arsenic [12/02/2010]
• Nasa raises hopes of finding extra-terrestrials, discovery of 'alien' bacteria, survives in arsenic [12/01/2010]
• NASA to make MAJOR ALIENS REVELATION this week [11/30/2010]
• NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2 [11/30/2010]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"Life will find a way." --Dr. Ian Malcolm

bacteria that uses iron instead of oxygen

[BFW]

All reputable studies will state if the were peer reviewed and if they were reproduced. Here’s a cuple of site you may find helpfull.

Study Finds.

https://studyfinds.org/

Retraction Watch

https://retractionwatch.com/

All reputable studies will state if the were peer reviewed and if they were reproduced. You can look at the peer review to see if they are reputable. Unfortunately you can no longer assume that any, any new or even some of the older research is valid. The steeple chase to publish and to garner more grant money has tainted real research. Remember “caveat emptor,” or this way to the egress......

[Psalm 73]

Arsenic - that's how Madam Bovary died.

The most tragic ending outside of a Herman Hesse novel.

[ifinnegan]

It’s in the same group as phosphorus with five electrons in the outer shell.

That’s how these ideas come about. Like carbon and silicon.

But it’s not the same.

I don’t think this was ever a real finding. I’m sure they believed it, not saying it was a hoax. Just bad biochemistry molecular biology.