Re: USGS and NASA scientists to speak about Mono Lake

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USGS and NASA scientists to speak about Mono Lake
April 25, 2011 04:11PM

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Ever since NASA broke the news in December about the discovery of a bacterium from Mono Lake that appears to use arsenic in place of phosphorous, we’ve been talking fairly often with Dr. Ron Oremland, one of the lead scientists from the US Geological Survey working on the team. He has studied Mono Lake for decades and knows its microbes and chemistry well.

http://www.monolake.org/today/2011/04/25/usgs-and-nasa-scientists-to-speak-about-mono-lake/

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dqniel

Re: USGS and NASA scientists to speak about Mono Lake
April 25, 2011 06:44PM

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Very interesting. We were discussing this in organic chemistry last week.

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caldrich

Re: USGS and NASA scientists to speak about Mono Lake
April 30, 2011 08:36AM

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So it replaces Phosphorus with Arsenic? Interesting.

Back in the 1960′s Isaac Asimov wrote a science essay where he called Phosphorus “Life’s Bottleneck.” Nowadays the trendy term is “Peak Phosphorus.”
Perhaps Arsenic life will replace Phosphorus life when Phosphorus becomes scarce.

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fluxfluxa

Re: USGS and NASA scientists to speak about Mono Lake
April 30, 2011 12:00PM

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I wonder how many other lakes have aliens.

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rick

Re: USGS and NASA scientists to speak about Mono Lake
April 30, 2011 04:52PM