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NASA Finds Alien DNA in Californian Lake
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RasGold
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 		NASA Finds Alien DNA in Californian Lake
FYI

Nice timing?


http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Alien-DNA-NASA-Mono-Lake-Bacteria,news-9183.html#xtor=RSS-998

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The possibility of life outside this tiny, little planet we call home is now much more likely ...

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gramma
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 		what do you mean regarding the timing?

it was just a hype about halomonadaceae bacterium that was known in theory to be able to exchange one of the classic six elements

now they where able to proof it and made a press conference

pls tag this as offtopic for our "guest-trolls".....thx
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:54 pm
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Xeno Lambrose
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 		Alien(?) life
Hey Ras,

Good to hear from you; thought you'd dropped off the radar and vanished.

Nasa, which is hurting for $s makes this statement, alluding to alien life, but is it really? It's just one of many, many things that scientists have discovered that they did not know before, and that's never happened before.

Look at all of the theories that have been revised or thrown out entirely in the past and up to the present.

National Geographic has presented many awesome documentaries on numerous subjects, and I recall how over-awed scientists were when they discovered the deep-dwelling tube worms living adjacent to volcanic plumes under the ocean, and the remarkable process by which they were able to live.

Each year there are so many "new" species discovered, but they're really not new...they just hadn't been found before by scientists.

Why, in the early part of the last century the concensus among scientists was that a particular aquatic creature was extinct. That was proved wrong in 1938! The name of the particular fish slips my mind (and I hate when my mind starts slipping--better than sliding, I suppose), but it just shows to go you that science is not static, and whether one believes in intelligent design, or feels that one of their ancestors was cousin to Sasquatch, our planet is teeming with enough life forms to keep scientists busy for the rest of their lives.

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 		New Species
Since we are getting theoretical, what construes a new species? If a scientist had not cataloged it and put it in a jar before then it is new. But we have proven that like the dinosaurs yes new species do appear. And keeping with Darwinism species adapt to their environment, ex: marine iguanas, Geckos and chameleons. So yes there is a possibility that there are new species being made everyday. Who says evolutionary changed species cannot be born today? Maybe that two headed snake knows something we don't? Or maybe he needs both of those heads to see what's coming so he doesn't get run over by that car.

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Xeno Lambrose
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 		and just to be safe, our two-headed snake should evolve rearview mirrors so that it knows he/she/they should pull over for the hemi-under the shell tortoise with the flashing light bar on top who's going to pull the snake over for not signaling properly while passing a horned toad on the wrong side of the road... Laughing

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 		Re: New Species
simplicityjones wrote:
.... So yes there is a possibility that there are new species being made everyday. Who says evolutionary changed species cannot be born today....


Enter Zanthrustra stage left Wink

Whatever your opinion regarding motives, it is very cool. The ability of GFAJ-1 to utilise arsenic instead of phosphorus on our planet basically rewrites our "rules of life". Certainly Astrobiologists and Chemists have speculated that this should be possibe, proving it is a much bigger deal (like retrocausality-Theoretically cool but if practically proven then fundamentally awesome and rule changing (twiddles thumbs waiting for Cramer Rolling Eyes )!). Combine this with the recent study showing over three times the number of red giants out there (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature09578.html) then not only are we unlikely to be alone, the universe is almost certainly teeming with life. Rock On

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kosmopol
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 		Yeah, for me personally this is a revolutionary event.
Even if discovery was made earlier, but: now even the last doubting professor has to admit that our contemporary view of life (at least as a biological process) is soo 1900ies.

I am sure (and I always was), our universe is full of life. Just the so-to-called "healthy" scepticism in the science was always the hugest brake of our development. Now even the traditionalists see: we know too few things to decline things. Because this scientifical scepticism was surely a protection against wildest speculations, but: it gone the wrong way

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scepticism=>this thing does not fit into modern theories=>there is no such thing=>everybody researching this thing is a charlatan

And since people are infected by vanity, nobody want to be called a charlatan, so they stood away from relovutionary but not traditional science.

Now we see: this so called traditional science is a Comedy of Errors.

That's why this event is very significant for me.
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gramma wrote:
pls tag this as offtopic for our "guest-trolls".....thx

Sorry ... Nope.

I find the subject "On Topic" and the timing is relative to our little viral story here.

a) Area 51 is the only known connection between Super 8 and alien presence.
b) So far, the conversation has been intellectual and enlightening.
c) I take a "Hardee-Har-Har" view on life. And, any entertainment I can provide within the guidelines of the forum Mods is well respected.

If I was to post something drastic, it would be:
"J.J. Announces 'Super 8' Is, In Fact, Prequel To Cloverfield!"

Ask anyone who remembers me from the Cloverfield Viral days.
While I post a lot of outlandish sh!t, I weed out the random crap and systematically denounce "fake" from fiction.

As I see it, here on UnFiction, the "Guest Trolls" have been posting pertinent information regarding this game; which I find unfair. I have requested no guest posting ... but it continues. Either this game is too far fetched (too hard--it's like clicking the "hint" button when we get stuck in a puzzle too soon), or the game is not fully structured.

Soooooo ... An Alien organism has been found on Earth.
I'm very excited!!!

Beats the Hell out of the Global Warming/2012 fanatics!


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RasGold wrote:
I find the subject "On Topic" and the timing is relative to our little viral story here.


Think of the tag as being whether or not the thread is related to in-game content for the ARG (assuming there is one here). Whether or not a subject is "on topic" isn't the issue, but whether or not it is "In Game" or "Out Of Game".

Because NASA did not hold a press release for the purposes of furthering a viral marketing campaign for an upcoming movie, this thread should be tagged [OOG].

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gramma
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catherwood wrote:
RasGold wrote:
I find the subject "On Topic" and the timing is relative to our little viral story here.


Think of the tag as being whether or not the thread is related to in-game content for the ARG (assuming there is one here). Whether or not a subject is "on topic" isn't the issue, but whether or not it is "In Game" or "Out Of Game".

Because NASA did not hold a press release for the purposes of furthering a viral marketing campaign for an upcoming movie, this thread should be tagged [OOG].


you found the better words for it Very Happy

cheers
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kosmopol
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 		Yes Ras, seriously.
NASA is not in such desperated financial situation to make adverts for Hollywood.
It's fully OOG. Or, say, the Roswell alien was a very early viral marketing campaign for JJ Abrams movie "Super 8". JJ Abrams was pretty young these days, to be correctly: -19 years.
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