I think it's safe to say we're not alone in the universe.

NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth
All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.
But not this one...this bacteria is made of arsenic...
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wiki said:
A few species of bacteria are known that use arsenates in respiration. Otherwise, arsenic is notoriously poisonous to most multicellular life, due to the interaction of arsenic ions with protein thiols.
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Arsenic? Oh yeah, that sounds like a fun human loving bacteria. Does it have acid for blood too?
I can't wait until it starts growing arms and legs. They should make lovely pets.
 
Gord.T said:
Arsenic? Oh yeah, that sounds like a fun human loving bacteria. Does it have acid for blood too?
I can't wait until it starts growing arms and legs. They should make lovely pets.
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LMAO!!!! Gord... YOU are the best!
 
Let's consider this for a minute: What if we ARE alone in the universe? Could planet earth be the ultimate one-in-a-trillion winning lottery ticket?
 
Jawa Ex Machina said:
Is there anything at all that we know about the world that suggests this?
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I'm with Jawa. There's no reason for there to NOT be life out there. Look at earth. As long as there's water, life finds a way. In every pool of water there's billions of life forms living in it. Look at some of the hottest water, like the geysers at yellow stone, or some of the coldest water depths without any light whatsoever, it's all teeming with life. The probability of there not being life is far more unlikely IMO. You just need water (which is abundant in the universe) and for the planet to be in the golden zone, which is also very possible.

Now as for whether or not this life is intelligent is another question entirely.
 
EDV said:
Let's consider this for a minute: What if we ARE alone in the universe? Could planet earth be the ultimate one-in-a-trillion winning lottery ticket?
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We could be, at this moment in time. The chances that two intelligent species would evolve in the same time period of the universe and close enough together to make any kind of meaningful contact are much less greater than the chance that there's any life at all.
 
I think the bigger question should be are we the only UNIVERSE.
People have speculated that the formation of our universe was caused by two other universes colliding...thus the Big Bang.
 
That's an altogether different question Zazacast. And yes, I was refering to intelligent life in my earlier post, not bacteria.
 
There's no evidence that we're NOT alone.

And in a finite universe, someone has to be first, and they will be, for a time, alone. There's no reason why we can't be that someone.
 
David Jimerson said:
There's no evidence that we're NOT alone.

And in a finite universe, someone has to be first, and they will be, for a time, alone. There's no reason why we can't be that someone.
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Yes, but you're assuming we'll be here forever, which isn't likely. Even if we're here until the Sun phases into a state that's not friendly toward life on Earth, on a cosmic scale our life span as species will have been like a gnat fart in time.
 
Batutta said:
We could be, at this moment in time. The chances that two intelligent species would evolve in the same time period of the universe and close enough together to make any kind of meaningful contact are much less greater than the chance that there's any life at all.
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We're not that special.
 
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