Why did I post thsi here? Please read on about the 'scary' prospects of new life form for the leader of Western world to contact the scientists!
NASA finds arsenic based life form on Earth
NASA finds arsenic based life form on Earth
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All life on Earth - from microbes to elephants and us - is based on a single genetic model that requires the element phosphorus as one of its six essential components.
But now researchers have uncovered a bacterium that has five of those essential elements but has, in effect, replaced phosphorus with its look-alike but toxic cousin arsenic.
News of the discovery caused a scientific commotion, including calls to NASA from the White House and Congress asking whether a second line of earthly life has been found.
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