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The sea-vent-bacteria hinted us in the direction that organisms don't need photosynthesis to substain life. This new dioscovery is another step, so biology now has to say goodbye to some old concepts about the decription of life.
I am no biologist, but I think to this science it means the same as the discovery of quantum mechanics meant to the newtonian physics: an overhaul (not dismissal!) of the old theories.

I think the industrialist's lobby in D.C. will have a new "theme":

"Deregulate" pollutant limits so we can freely "mutate" into the future!

Survival of the fittest (mutant)!

Toxic is not bad. It is just different.

Don't mitigate pollution. You are destroying a unique ecosystems.

:o

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Originally Posted by Penguin (Post 1546301)

I can now see Hollywood writers coming up with new end of the worlds films or alien assaults. hehe :O:

If it's on Earth and started here?
It's not an Alien Life Form.

Did Scientists discover this?
OK, sure. But Fiction Writers said this kind of stuff a long time ago.
Jules Verne started Fiction about stuff we take for granted today.
Does he get a Noble Prize for his advanced theories?

Yes it's interesting but I wonder how much money was spent to
prove what Science Fiction writers have been saying for years.
And how much of Tax Payers money was involved?

If the so called Scientists have only been looking for life as 'They' know it?
They'll be disappointed.
The Gov's don't send money to other Worlds YET.

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Originally Posted by privateer (Post 1546488)

But Fiction Writers said this kind of stuff a long time ago.
Yes it's interesting but I wonder how much money was spent to
prove what Science Fiction writers have been saying for years.
And how much of Tax Payers money was involved?

Are you actually advocating that we presume what fiction authors write should be taken as fact? :nope:

One of the purposes of science is to attempt to confirm or refute what "people have been saying for years" :yep:

Over the past days, I repeatedly read about biologists voicing increasing criticism of the NASA study, accusing the authors of methodological flaws, sometimes even dilletantism. The criticsim first came from British, Canadian and German scientists, but then from Russia, other European countries and finally all the world, it seems. It seems the autzhors, and NASA, are under fire.

If I understood it correctly, this Blog entry by micro-biologist Rosie Redfield from the university of British Columbia in Vancouver was the first salvo against the NASA study.

http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/...ria-nasas.html

I'm surprised that it gets relatively little coverage. But maybe I just miss the show.

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I don't know whether the authors are just bad scientists or whether they're unscrupulously pushing NASA's 'There's life in outer space!' agenda. I hesitate to blame the reviewers, as their objections are likely to have been overruled by Science's editors in their eagerness to score such a high-impact publication.

Again: the author is an internationally known micro-biologist herself.