When we look for life on other planets, what should we be looking for? Well, anything really, that should be our final answer; Nothing and everything. Think about it for a moment. We continue to make discoveries by finding life living in what we perceive to be the most inhospitable places here on Earth. And as fascinating as that is, we should come to expect this.
There was a very interesting article in NASA Science News for December 2, 2010, an article titled; “‘Arsenic-bug’ discovery broadens definition of life,” it read; “Astrobiologists have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth capable of thriving and reproducing using the toxic chemical arsenic. The microorganism, which lives in California’s Mono Lake, substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in the backbone of its DNA.”
You know, as a think tank member, I find this interesting, but really, I’m not really surprised. I mean “life” is everywhere, and it’s like the famous line from Jurassic Park in the movie; “life will always find a way” – what I don’t understand is why anyone would be surprised by this finding, I’m not, actually I would have expected it. It seems that all these preconceived notions based on false thoughts and human superstition seem to have a hard time breaking free. So this next becomes a BIG Revelation, when it’s as common as hydrogen.
Arsenic-eating bacteria and new microbes substituting arsenic for phosphorus is great, and maybe for some it will change their narrow definition of life on Earth and elsewhere, but for me, certainly not, I’m not one bit surprised. little bit.
Wake up humans, all kinds of life exist everywhere. There is life underground tens of miles deep, there is life on moons, frozen planets, gas planets, Earth-like planets, barren planets, asteroids, comets, and probably floating in space in clouds of dust and debris at points of Lagrange. Life is everywhere, not just on earth. Every life you can conceive of in any brainstorming session, the craziest idea you can come up with, even while in a drunken state, exists somewhere in our Universe. Please consider all this.