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Doubts Brew About NASA’s New Arsenic Life
December 8, 2010 at 7:16 am
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RE: Doubts Brew About NASA’s New Arsenic Life
December 8, 2010 at 7:25 am
Seems like it could be shoddy methodology.
The experiment needs to be replicated by an independent lab.
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RE: Doubts Brew About NASA’s New Arsenic Life
December 8, 2010 at 7:27 am
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(December 8, 2010 at 7:25 am)theVOID Wrote: Seems like it could be shoddy methodology.
The experiment needs to be replicated by an independent lab.
Yes, as I pointed out in my earlier post on the subject.
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RE: Doubts Brew About NASA’s New Arsenic Life
December 8, 2010 at 7:29 am
It's quite a funny turn of events, from "NASA finds alien life" to "Bacteria uses arsenic to build DNA" to "Lazy researchers forget to prep experiment properly"
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RE: Doubts Brew About NASA’s New Arsenic Life
December 8, 2010 at 7:36 am
(December 8, 2010 at 7:29 am)theVOID Wrote: It's quite a funny turn of events, from "NASA finds alien life" to "Bacteria uses arsenic to build DNA" to "Lazy researchers forget to prep experiment properly"
It underscores the importance of peer review and not "jumping the gun" before you have all your eggs sorted.
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RE: Doubts Brew About NASA’s New Arsenic Life
December 8, 2010 at 7:38 am
Just like the new Penrose "Circular structures in the CMB"
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RE: Doubts Brew About NASA’s New Arsenic Life
December 8, 2010 at 9:09 am
It sounds like it would be a real beginners error any chance that the NASA scientist did a poor job on the research paper?
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RE: Doubts Brew About NASA’s New Arsenic Life
December 8, 2010 at 10:45 am
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You mean a poor job on the paper and not the research it's self?
Exactly, it sounds like the kind of ignorant error someone like me would make!
Thanks for the link!
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