They're Here

[peteyoung]

"I've not been so excited about a bacteria since my STD tests came back clean." Re. today's NASA announcement: okay, it's not red dwarfs from Mars, it's the discovery of some mad microbe that utilises arsenic instead of phosphorus. Woah. This is actually big news for our understanding of life on Earth. (via purplecthulhu)

EDIT: As imagined by Stanley Weinbaum in 1935. (Thanx ffutures).