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  1. Dibs – come on! give me some credit – I guess b/c I find it hard to think that goo produced life as we know it – I mean our bodies are really amazing machines – I mean AMAZING and I guess I just believe something bigger than us had a hand in coming up with that idea!
    ha!

  2. dona, we always avoided the food there. Got my parents a weekend for their anniversary years ago and were lucky they always bring their liquor suitcase with them other wise they would have not been happy. I just usually went to x-ski or bike.

  3. arkady,
    I just read an article about the arsenic-based life form controversy.

    http://www.slate.com/id/2276919/

    It looks like a bunch of scientists disagree with the methodology of the NASA scientists.
    They see serious flaws in their technique.
    I don’t think that disproves their findings though, just makes them less likely.

    It is still possible though. Look at the bacteria living on hydrogen sulfide in 700 degree water next to volcanic vents at the bottom of the ocean.

  4. By gemini10 on March 14, 2011 3:30 PM

    Not sure this is in line with the current convo being debated about ET and space…

    but I am finding it harder and harder to believe that us “Hue-mons” came from goo or amoebas or whatever evolutionists theorize.

    Texas is that way>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  5. The arsenic replaces phosphate in the molecule, but otherwise the bacterium is still carbon based. So it was inaccurate to claim it is an arsenic-based life form. But Silicon has been posited theoretically as a true alternative to carbon based life.

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