Aliens?? [NASA Discovery Announcement]

tlsk1066 said

Cannot argue with the coolness factor...

I know they had been theorizing about the possibilities of life in the poisonous lake and I think this proves the at life will always find a way to survive. If you are a firm believer of evolution (and how can you not, especially now), this discovery shouldn't be earth-shattering.

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What's being suggested is beyond the "found a way to metabolize arsenic". Those bacteria were found and published on in 2008. What's being rumored is that what they've found something that has chemically different DNA than what we've seen before.

So this lifeform developed INDEPENDENT of the evolutionary process we're familiar with.

If that's what they announce (still rumor), then that would mean that life evolved twice on Earth, separately.