NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery

[Nephew Twiddleton]

13- Borg cube.

[Suu]

14> Nancy Pelosi is a reptilian shapeshifter.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

15- We're the aliens part 2: Turns out we're actually descended from stranded colonists, homeworld finally getting around to seeing what happened to us.

[Eater of Clowns]

16.  It's dildoes all the way down.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

17. They actually had the Hubble turned around backwards and we've all be staring at extreme close-ups of Oprah's ass this whole time.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

17. They actually had the Hubble turned around backwards and we've all be staring at extreme close-ups of Oprah's ass this whole time.

[Jasper]

17. They actually had the Hubble turned around backwards and we've all be staring at extreme close-ups of Oprah's ass this whole time.

Or the magnification was inverted and we've been looking at tiny space microbes. 

[Triple Zero]

#10 - President Obama, trying to save face with the new GOP majority in the House, has replaced top NASA officials with Southern Baptist clergymen, and the search for extraterrestrial life has been called off, because it isn't in the Bible.

Dude, haven't you read Ezekiel? It's totally in the bible, man!

[Nephew Twiddleton]

#10 - President Obama, trying to save face with the new GOP majority in the House, has replaced top NASA officials with Southern Baptist clergymen, and the search for extraterrestrial life has been called off, because it isn't in the Bible.

Dude, haven't you read Ezekiel? It's totally in the bible, man!

Man, It sucked to be Ezekiel. Abducted by aliens, had to eat poop bread....

[Requia ☣]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/compost/2010/12/the_big_announcement_nasa_find.html Bacteria with arsenic based DNA were discovered in California.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

So I guess the next question is, what happened here? Are these a mutated strain of bacteria, a separate abiogenesis event, or space germs? 

This is pretty cool though.

[Adios]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/02/nasa.extraterrestrial.life/index.html?hpt=T1

Scientists have discovered a form of bacteria that can thrive on arsenic -- an element generally considered toxic -- dramatically expanding both traditional notions of how life is sustained and the range of where it might be found in the universe, NASA funded-researchers said Thursday.

"Life as we know it requires particular chemical elements and excludes others," Arizona State University researcher Ariel Anbar said in a news release. "But are those the only options? How different could life be?"
The bacterium not only grew but also incorporated the arsenic molecules into its DNA, in place of phosphorus, she said.

Very interesting.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Filthy hipster bacteria.

"Oh yeah I used to use phosphorus until it got mainstream. Now Im really into arsenic, youve probably never heard of it its pretty obscure."

[Jasper]

LIFE

dun dun dunt nuh nuhhh

LIFE IS LIFE

dun dun dunt nuh nuhhh

[Phox]

That... is... awesome! Take that intro to biology!