News at 11. NASA has found life on Earth LOL.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnew….._Life.html

It's important, it implies life may develop on planets with harsh toxic atmospheres.

But a press conference for it? I would have thought a writeup in a scientific journal (which they have done) or an internet release would be sufficient.

I guess I missed the memo where PC's are now released every time they sneeze. Not that there's anything wrong with that either. I'm all for bringing science into mainstream news, but I think because they haven't done this in the past, people (including me) were expecting something special.

But but but…. I wanted this. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/

Learjet said:

But but but…. I wanted this. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/

I know, I know.  I have to admit, I've been a bit disappointed by very unexpected backlash to this news.  Many people wanted aliens.  But…what we got…was something better.

I've been in contact with a couple of friends of mine.  One has read the entire paper.  He gives it a "thumbs up,"  Said the experiments were nice, clean, and tight.  My other friend is a third of the way through.  I just started on it but…it will take me a while.  Some of the things in it, I'm right there.  Other things…a bit above my pay-grade or beyond my comfort level (a lot of "what is that?" and "why would they do this as opposed to that?" type of things).

If all this pans out…if these results are true….mannnnn….we're going to after to re-write entire sections of chemistry!  That's how big this is and I don't think that many people who aren't into chemistry (not you Learjet, just people in general…) are really grasping the enormity of this. 

I mean…again, if this is proven and true…this would be just a bunch of crazy.  It would be like someone proving to me that the Earth is round and not flat.  AND…not only that, but I didn't even know that the Earth being round was even on the table.  This…is how crazy big this is.  And it saddens me to no end that people are disappointed in this.  Yesterday…I knew what the building blocks of life were and the intracellular mechanisms behind them.  Today…I don't.  THAT…is awesome!  Scary…but awesome…

@Leslie – I don't think hell will break out.  I think our new Arsenic-based micro-overlords shall be benevolent.  And by that, I mean our annihilation will be quick and virtually painless.  So, you know…there's that….

Hmmm…

In a previous post, I had mentioned that a couple of friends and I were reading the paper.  The first guy who read it, who gave it a "thumb's up" is not a chemist, he's a physicist.  He is insanely smart…but has little "hands-on" experience with our type of equipment.  My other friend and I are in the field of chemistry.  And we're…slowly backing away from the paper.  There are things or aspects that we don't understand.  Although the premise of the paper is very exciting…ground-breaking…we really need top-notch experts taking a good long look at this paper.

(If anyone is interested…my chief problems with that paper: They dunked the DNA in water while they analyzed it.  First…no clue why they did that.  But more importantly, any Arsenic compound, no matter what it's attached to, breaks apart almost instantly in water.  It remained in chunks…which strongly suggests that it was phosphate-based.  The argument that it was Arsenic-based is weak.  And even before this point, it seems like they missed or by-passed a couple of steps when they took the DNA out of the bacteria.  No reason in the world to do this, no matter what type of experiment that you're running.  By passing on these steps, the bacteria could have simply been contaminated by Arsenic.  We can't even phantom why they would have done that.)

There are a few more things, but those two really jump out.  I am not saying that the paper is wrong or fake or whatever.  Just saying that there are some glaring questions that need to be answered.  Maybe they can be corrected.  I don't know.  But if my friend and I are finding problems…I don't know what's going to happen when the really smart people start reading this paper.  I guess we'll find out in the coming months… 

Maybe people who aren't used to the world of science will get a chance to see how brutal "peer review" is and how it is absolutely and positively needed.  If only the paranormal world would submit to this system of "checks and balances."  Can you imagine J&G handing over alternate video shots or sound files of their "evidence?"  Yeah…right…