Holy Diver

NASA - NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical


Discovered in the poisonous Mono Lake, California, this bacteria is made of arsenic, something that was thought to be completely impossible. While she and other scientists theorized that this could be possible, this is the first discovery. The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding beings in other planets that don't have to be like planet Earth.



CRAZY. This pumps up the odds of life existing elsewhere in the universe a million fold.

Harry Boy

If We Are Here
Why Are They Not There

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Harry Boy (Genius)

In The Absence Of Law And Order Society Will Surely Destroy Itself

PatsFanInVa

They are there. They're just not here.

Real World

So wait, science was wrong then? It can't be!

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
Leo Tolstoy, 1897

IcyPatriot

NASA discovered that Harry was still alive

Holy Diver

Science never stops

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o

chicowalker

Where did that text come from? I thought the bolder part sounded unscientific -- and, well, incorrect -- and it seemed to be contradicted by the very next sentence.

Sure enough, it doesn't appear to be from the linked NASA release.

chicowalker

How exactly was "science" "wrong"?

(Unlike many people -- and maybe more institutions -- scientists are usually well aware they could be wrong, and are always testing assumptions and "knowledge.")

PatriotsReign

"Science" and scientists have been wrong many, many times. And they'll continue to be wrong many more times. Why do you question someone stating "science was wrong"?

The statement said, "something scientists thought was IMPOSSIBLE"...well, obviously, they were wrong.

chicowalker

But whose statement was that? It wasn't NASA's -- see my post to HD just ahead of the one you quoted.

Getting back to your questions -- given the 2nd part of my post you cited, and what I pointed out / asked of HD, I'm not sure your questions really make sense. "Science" isn't wrong because a hypothesis or a theory is found to be false, incomplete or less likely. That's why they're labeled hypotheses or theories -- not facts.