NASA Confirms Aliens Exist - Right On Our Planet!

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The human race has been obsessed with finding Alien life for centuries. Turns out, they may actually exist - not in the planets far beyond, but right here on Earth. And the discovery was made by none other than the smart scientists of NASA, who announced their big news amidst much fanfare, at a press conference held in Washington D.C. on December 2nd.

Unfortunately for most of us, the 'aliens' are not little green men who have mistakenly arrived from a distant planet, but a bacterium identified as the GFAJ-1 strain of the Halomonadaceae family, which was discovered at the bottom of Northern California's highly saline, Mono Lake.

Until the discovery of this bacteria, scientists had always believed that for any organism to grow, there had to be carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and most importantly phosphorous - all essential building materials for proteins, fats and DNA, the nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions about the development and function in living creatures.

To test their theory, they extracted the bacteria from the lake and starved it for phosphorous, substituting it with arsenic, which while chemically similar to phosphorous is highly poisonous to most living things. The bacteria continued to grow, leading the scientists to conclude that it had successfully substituted the phosphorous with the arsenic.

The fact that this life form uses what was considered a poison as one of the building blocks for its body, is what makes scientist classify it as an Alien. It has led experts to think that maybe life form is much more flexible than they had originally believed, and that it can actually exist without everything being perfect - Which gives them even more hope that there may be life forms on Planets that we didn't originally believe were habitable - Watch out Aliens, we are on to you now!

Sources: Gizmag.com,Nasa.gov

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  • gold3nglare
    gold3nglarealmost 4 years
    I didn't fall for the title for a seconds, but this was an interesting article to read.
    • trefuhugruysrur
      trefuhugruysrurabout 5 years
      cooll
      • spacepopcorn
        spacepopcornabout 5 years
        hi i love aliens hope we find more clues about aliens
        • becky2222
          becky2222about 5 years
          thats magical but i wish that we can find out more about aliens
          • fluffyabout 5 years
            This is really cool watch out!!
            • oofabout 5 years
              wow i wanna read more
              • Nameabout 5 years
                This is amazing i mean wow "so much evidence" like really only you tested it did others test it I want some details, now that bacteria is strong as.......um.....well you get the point i want to know why it was resistent nobody has answered me yet or even posted any of these i write i just want to know why it would be called an alien and not a strong organism that needs to be tested by others and researched further. -thank you :|
                • Ejgotstackzzabout 5 years
                  wow this is really interesting i wanna read more
                  • blakeover 5 years
                    i really like this article thank you dogo news!
                    • AZZY.........over 5 years
                      nice