Case Reopened

Ahoy, shipmates!

Seems that one cannot reopen threads, which have been resting 90 days or so. All right, there always is an option to add a new one. Came across this, published ten days ago:

Erika Check Hayden, “Study challenges existence of arsenic-based life : Open-science advocates fail to reproduce controversial findings”, http://www.nature.com/news/study-challenges-existence-of-arsenic-based-life-1.9861.

This is related to at least two previous SETI@home discussion threads from November—December 2010:

Cafe SETI, “NASA announcement thursday”, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=62142

SETI@home Science, “NASA Conference on Something”, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=62152.

Regards

PK
Finland

Having been to Mono Lake in the Tioga Pass area of the Sierra Nevada mountains I can tell you that there is an especially different ecology of life going on there with the brine shrimp and the high temperature water deposits and the bacteria that lives there.