NASA finds a new life form -- a new kind of life existing on earth in a lake in California. This discovery leads to all kinds of questions. Such as: How did it get there? Is it native to earth, or was it put there by an extraterrestrial visitor? A meteor? Or something else?
The discovery of this different kind of a life, bacteria that can use arsenic, should be an eye-opener, a head opening event. Well, it is. It's a very big deal.
Life is formed as a result of physical and chemical reactions, and when the resources are available. To support life? Or when life finds a way to exist?
This new life form, did it evolve on earth because of the chemicals in the lake? Are there other forms of life to be found on earth, in space and beyond?
There are so many questions. And --
Though this was an earth found find, it leads to speculation that isn't so far fetch, that there are probably other forms of life else where, and out there in other parts of the universe,
Implications of new life
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