Arsenic and cold space

http://www.onpublicspeaking.com/scientists-discover-bacteria-thriving-on-arsenic/4156/ quickly summarizes the story. The requirements for organic life may be more flexible than we realized, thus expanding possibilities in the search for inhabited planets. The bacteria was discovered in Mono Lake, here in California.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/12/a-serving-of-arsenic-for-the-press.html?ref=hp has a funny cartoon from the Internet's favorite web comic.

http://www.sciencemag.org/ has the in-depth story of NASA's findings.

http://www.arsenic.com/ is proof someone else remembers the old movie my aunt Linda used to talk about as a favorite.

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