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I get a strong feeling that this guy is like the lab that said they found life that didn’t use phosphorous for dna a few years back. I think it just turned out
by Mistletoe 3y ago
I get a strong feeling that this guy is like the lab that said they found life that didn’t use phosphorous for dna a few years back. I think it just turned out to be shoddy lab work and not accounting for contaminants in their lab chemicals.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.9861 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.9861
If you find something extremely rare that rewrites what we know you need to be damn sure that what you are saying is true. But some people rush to the media and trying to publish it before they’ve even made sure.
- rex_lupi 3y agoI mean, from the circumstances it seems quite evident they believe in what they're saying. Fyi they've been working on this material since 1999
- stefan_ 3y agoGood old polywater. Only this time they found something that all the scifi nerds can get excited about so the discussion is extra useless.