http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/life-space-life-lives-off-arsenic/story?id=12291373
In Mono Lake, California scientists have discovered a bacteria called GFAJ-1. Until now we believed that all life on Earth needed 6 things to live: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and phosphorous. But this newly discovered bacteria can live without phosphorous. Instead, it thrives on arsenic. This is so important because before this no one ever thought that things could survive without what we previously knew. Scientists at NASA are now ecstatic and looking for ways that life could possibly survive o other planets. They are already making plans to visit Titan, Mars' biggest moon because they know that it has arsenic on it.
I think this is really neat. So I am wondering if this means they are saying that at some point we as people could live there or if you are saying that things such as plants would just live there. Would we even want to life to be on other planets? It would be really interesting to see how this turns out in the near future. I would like to learn more about it.
ReplyDeleteWow this is really a cool discovery, but Sydney i doubt humans could ever live on Titan because of reasons other than just the lack of oxygen and nitrogen. I would really like to learn more about this though, this would be a cool story to follow.
ReplyDeleteWow, it's amazing how many new discoveries are being made and it's really cool how people keep finding new things and this is a really interesting one. I'm curious to know how the furthered research goes.
ReplyDeleteI think this is really awesome...I like how much science is improving and growing for the better...
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