Russ,
As Steve G. would say, Any Gradient in a Storm! Nick From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Russ Abbott Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:57 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical Other than the fact that this is the first time we have seen a life form that uses arsenic as a chemical building block, why is this important? Is there something about arsenic that is so incompatible with other forms of life that it would seem to be impossible to do this? -- Russ Abbott _____________________________________________ Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles Google voice: 424-235-5752 (424-cell-rja) blog: http://russabbott.blogspot.com/ vita: http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ _____________________________________________ On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:25 AM, glen e. p. ropella <[email protected]> wrote: I presume most of you've seen this already, but just in case: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/astrobiology_toxic_chemical.htm l "Researchers conducting tests in the harsh environment of Mono Lake in California have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. The microorganism substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in its cell components." -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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