To all SSC Station occupants
Thank you for the donations over the past year (2024), it is much appreciated. I am still trying to figure out how to migrate the forums to another community software (probably phpbb) but in the meantime I have updated the forum software to the latest version. SSC has been around a while so their is some very long time members here still using the site, thanks for making SSC home and sorry I haven't been as vocal as I should be in the forums I will try to improve my posting frequency.
Thank you again to all of the members that do take the time to donate a little, it helps keep this station functioning on the outer reaches of space.
-D1-
Now all we have to do is find out if they are sentient and discover a way to communicate with them. This is too important to be posted in the news reel.
Skymania has not seen the paper and so has been free to do some detective work to discover what will be announced. Despite wild speculation on the internet, there is unlikely to be an announcement that extra-terrestrials have been discovered, for the reasons very well put forward by Stuart Atkinson’s Cumbrian Sky.
But our own investigations suggest that it follows a breakthrough in the discovery of microbes in a lake that get their energy from the usually poisonous arsenic. Experts say this shows they had a completely different origin to any other creature known on our planet. It means that life began not just once but at least twice on Earth.
A key scientist on NASA’s panel will be Dr Felisa Wolfe-Simon who has spent two years investigating Mono Lake, close to California’s Yosemite National Park. The lake has no outlet and has, over many millenia, built up one of the highest natural concentrations of arsenic on Earth.
Read More: http://skymania.com/wp/2010/11/alien-li ... earth.html
If you believe the Panspermia theory then we are all aliens.
Bacteria may travel dormant for an extended amount of time before colliding randomly with other planets or intermingling with protoplanetary discs.
If met with ideal conditions on the new planets' surfaces, the bacteria become active and the process of evolution begins.
Panspermia is not meant to address how life began, just the method that may cause its sustenance.
This new evidence would seem to confirm this theory.
Or theres necropanspermia 😆
I really had my hopes high for this one.
Turns out to be another archebacteria heh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFAJ-1
I`d like to see a non DNA/RNA life form for a change!
Nasa..weak.
"Experts say this shows they had a completely different origin to any other creature known on our planet"
Im no expert but im calling bull here.
Im no expert but im calling bull here.
Yeah it seems far more likely that this bacteria simply evolved in the high concentrations of arsenic in the water.
Maybe the media missinterpreted the news,its not like they haven't done that before.
This is old news to me. At around this time of the year (especially at the very end of the year), there are loads of Alien lifeforms lolling around Glasgow 😆
lol 😆
no, no...the finding was that a bacterium was able to substitute arsenic for some of its phosopherous. this indicatees that extraterrestrial(perhaps terran) life might not need(much) phospherous. The bacterium itself is earthly and not very interesting. The substitution of arsenic for phospherous is. The extrapolation is that extraterrestrial life might not need.... carbon?.... hydrogen?.... oxygen?... nitrogen?... sulpher?....some or all of the above.
True. Maybe I'm inpatient because I want to see something more substantial than just some space bacteria.
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