Aliens. For real this time.

[Moonliner]

Well pooh. It's still cool and all but not quite what I was hoping for.

While it shows life can adapt to a wider range of environment it does nothing to address the critical issue of can life develop on it's own in these environments.

[Moonliner]

On the other hand, I'm glad to see we are already looking for a way to exploit this critter.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

While it shows life can adapt to a wider range of environment it does nothing to address the critical issue of can life develop on it's own in these environments.

I wouldn't say it does nothing. The prevailing assumption was that life, whether adapted or developed-anew, could never possibly exist outside of the specific chemical components we know. No way, no how, not even worth looking at. While there's still nothing that shows it could come together from a primordial soup that doesn't contain phosphorous, at least we now, to some degree, can see that, yes, something which we would define, and recognize, as "life" can exist without the exact same set of chemicals. That's a pretty important leap.