WOW! This is very exciting!
Scientists discovered new life forms that do not need Oxygen.
This suggests that live is possible on other planets and the oxygen rich atmosphere is not required.
This means that very different life could develop elsewhere...other planets, cosmos, inner earth...
Oxygen rich atmosphere is pointless when thinking or looking for life off planet or inside planet.. wow..
source
http://www.physorg.com/news189836027.html
Scientists discovered new life forms that do not need Oxygen.
This suggests that live is possible on other planets and the oxygen rich atmosphere is not required.
This means that very different life could develop elsewhere...other planets, cosmos, inner earth...
Oxygen rich atmosphere is pointless when thinking or looking for life off planet or inside planet.. wow..
source
http://www.physorg.com/news189836027.html
I love this story. I don't intend to start a religious debate, but I often hear creationists state "what are the odds that everything would be so finely tuned that everything would end up like this"(referring to life as we know it). I think the best reply is "who said it had to be like this". We constantly see that the universe can take a seemingly infinite number of paths and we are only one. We need to broaden our minds as to what is alive and what intelligence is. I wonder if artificial intelligence will ever become sentient as we define it?
