NASA Mono Lake Discussion about “alien” life form

On December 2nd, 2010, NASA scientists released a press conference about discovering “alien” life in Mono Lake, California. This life-form, instead of incorporating phosphorus into its DNA structure incorporated arsenic instead, which is a deadly poison to most life-forms on Earth, (including us!).

The theory here is that if there’s a possibility of a “shadow” ecology existing on this planet, life throughout the Universe must be very common and could incorporate a variety of chemicals in their various DNAs in order to exist.

Of course the word is still out whether there’s a shadow ecology on Earth and many are disputing the NASA scientists findings, but there’s no doubt this raises more questions than answers. And that’s the nature of science.

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The NASA Mono Lake Discovery

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