# NASA Finds New Life Form
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**Created:** [December 2, 2010, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774 "2010-12-02T08:52:29Z")
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/1 "2010-12-02T08:52:29Z")
Conference today at 2pm to discuss it more but pretty intresting.
> **[NASA Finds New Life (Updated)](https://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life)**
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> NASA has discovered a new life form, a bacteria called GFAJ-1 that is unlike anything currently living in planet Earth. It's capable of using arsenic to build its DNA, RNA, proteins, and cell membranes. This changes everything. Updated.
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/2 "2010-12-02T09:41:14Z")
It’s been thought that Arsenic based and even Silicon based life forms could exist, but it was mostly speculation. This is cool news :tup:
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/3 "2010-12-02T12:52:05Z")
I fail, hit the lock checkbox instead of post :ham:
Thread reopened.
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### Author:  [@Gus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gus)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/4 "2010-12-02T13:00:29Z")
Whats NASA doing poking around in a lake?
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/5 "2010-12-02T13:04:50Z")
Looking for aliens. They found one.
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### Author:  [@dirtye30](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dirtye30)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/6 "2010-12-02T13:13:23Z")
i wanted to say something but i forgot what it was by the time this opened back up ☹
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/7 "2010-12-02T13:13:35Z")
anything that challenges the status quo is cool with me.
wasn’t there also some discovery of a trillion earth like planets in a new galaxy the other day?
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/8 "2010-12-02T13:15:08Z")
This is really interesting stuff.
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### Author:  [@Ciaran](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ciaran)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/9 "2010-12-02T14:22:03Z")
> [@bing](#):
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> anything that challenges the status quo is cool with me.
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> wasn’t there also some discovery of a trillion earth like planets in a new galaxy the other day?
no it was a new black hole just forming a few days ago
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### Author:  [@Jimshorts](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jimshorts)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/10 "2010-12-02T17:05:04Z")
Found this kinda interesting
**NASA Finds New Life Form**
NASA has discovered a new life form, a bacteria called GFAJ-1 that is unlike anything currently living in planet Earth. It’s capable of using arsenic to build its DNA, RNA, proteins, and cell membranes. This changes everything. Updated.
NASA is saying that this is “life as we do not know it”. The reason is that all life on Earth is made of six components: Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the largest whale, share the same life stream. Our DNA blocks are all the same.
That was true until today. In a surprising revelation, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon and her team have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today, working differently than the rest of the organisms in the planet. Instead of using phosphorus, the newly discovered microorganism-called GFAJ-1 and found in Mono Lake, California-uses the poisonous arsenic for its building blocks. Arsenic is an element poisonous to every other living creature in the planet except for a few specialized microscopic creatures.
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/11 "2010-12-02T17:08:59Z")
r
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### Author:  [@Jimshorts](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jimshorts)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/12 "2010-12-02T17:11:12Z")
my bad probably should have put a link
[http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2010/12/02/nasa-finds-new-life-form](http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2010/12/02/nasa-finds-new-life-form)
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### Author:  [@BOBBYGRV](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BOBBYGRV)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/13 "2010-12-02T17:12:13Z")
You probably should have searched…
[http://www.nyspeed.com/showthread.php?212548-NASA-Finds-New-Life-Form](http://www.nyspeed.com/showthread.php?212548-NASA-Finds-New-Life-Form)
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### Author:  [@Jimshorts](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jimshorts)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/14 "2010-12-02T17:14:47Z")
oh my bad again
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/15 "2010-12-02T20:31:00Z")
Nobody else get a chill down their spine at this discovery of an alien bacteria whose very DNA is made of something poisonous to almost all known earth-based organisms? It’s like the opening of a crappy apocalypse movie, except it’s real.
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### Author:  [@cougarspeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cougarspeed)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/16 "2010-12-02T20:36:43Z")
Fry it is terrestrial not Extraterrestrial so it is not alien just new. However the fact that it is living on arsenic is quite amazing. I can honestly say I always thought is was silly though that we assumed all other potential life forms needed/used the same things as us to sustain life was just silly.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/17 "2010-12-02T20:53:06Z")
I’m still stocking up on non-perishable foods, batteries, and beer. Just in case.
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### Author:  [@cougarspeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cougarspeed)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/18 "2010-12-02T21:01:08Z")
> [@Fry](#):
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> I’m still stocking up on non-perishable foods, batteries, and beer. Just in case.
Interestingly enough i bought all three of those already this week!!!
This really does open a ton of doors as far as what they might consider living conditions or how they think about them when looking for other life forms though.
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### Author:  [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/19 "2010-12-03T04:21:54Z")
It’s still a little unclear to me whether it’s DNA is actually made from arsenic. It sounds like _in the lab_, they were able to replace the phosphorous with arsenic, and it was able to utilize it. Not sure that it normally does that in nature.
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### Author:  [@dirtye30](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dirtye30)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nasa-finds-new-life-form/206774/20 "2010-12-09T12:21:20Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog\_thelookout/20101208/sc\_yblog\_thelookout/scientists-poking-holes-in-nasas-arsenic-eating-microbe-discovery](http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20101208/sc_yblog_thelookout/scientists-poking-holes-in-nasas-arsenic-eating-microbe-discovery)
Uh oh…
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