Re: Arsenic bacterium...

2010-12-02 Thread Maureen
; -Original Message- > From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 8:08 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Arsenic bacterium... > > > All that research just to prove there

RE: Arsenic bacterium...

2010-12-02 Thread Eric Roberts
It proved there are strange life forms in California outside of Haight Ashbury ;-) -Original Message- From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 8:08 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Arsenic bacterium... All that research just to prove there are

Re: Arsenic bacterium...

2010-12-02 Thread Maureen
All that research just to prove there are strange life-forms in California? On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Vivec wrote: > > It's basically a new fricking life form...on earth. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http:

Re: Arsenic bacterium...

2010-12-02 Thread Vivec
It's basically a new fricking life form...on earth. On 2 December 2010 20:59, Judah McAuley wrote: > > that would mean that it is doing something like ADA (arsenic instead of > phosphorous) and therefore is really a whole different cellular > biology. Neat. > > Judah > > ~

Re: Arsenic bacterium...

2010-12-02 Thread Judah McAuley
The really cool thing about this announcement is that the they seem to be using arsenic instead of phosphorous in their version of ATP. ATP (and what it breaks down to that cells actually use, ADP) is just totally fundamental to cellular mechanisms. It's food/energy at it's fundamental level. If I

RE: Arsenic bacterium...

2010-12-02 Thread Eric Roberts
It's some pretty interesting stuff... -Original Message- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:jmi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:28 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Arsenic bacterium... that and even the carbon-based extremophiles they have found like in and a

Re: Arsenic bacterium...

2010-12-02 Thread Jerry Johnson
that and even the carbon-based extremophiles they have found like in and around hydrothermal vents goes to show life is a lot tougher than we often think it is. On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > Here's another article from cnn: > > http://

RE: Arsenic bacterium...

2010-12-02 Thread Eric Roberts
Here's another article from cnn: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/02/nasa.extraterrestrial.life/index.html?hpt=T 1 ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=ho