NASA Discovers New Life Form

[Travis Hoffman]

http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

More detail: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/astrobiology_toxic_chemical.html

[iblis432]

That's pretty crazy. Basically makes everything you ever learned in Biology class disappear. but can they really still call it DNA? It's not made of the same blocks as ours, so i don't think the name would be the same.

[Basel A]

That's pretty crazy. Basically makes everything you ever learned in Biology class disappear. but can they really still call it DNA? It's not made of the same blocks as ours, so i don't think the name would be the same.


Deoxyribose? Check.
Nucleic Acid? Check.
To be technical.. Yeah, it's different from what we're used to, but it's certainly still DNA.

[davidthefat]

*Bad idea*
Anyways that was off topic. But honestly I doubt we will ever find any complex lifeforms out there, the chances are way too small. Thats the best we will ever get.
Drake's Equation (http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/SETI/drake_equation.html)