Skynet on the works, Robots are about to take over

Ok, not exactly, but it sounds really cool right? I mean, what will be the first thought that would pop into my mind after countless robot vs humans movies, games and comics. When I tell you this, if you are truly a teminator-brought-up geek you will think the same thing. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology created a initiative for a system that would allow robots to share information about our planet, habbits and pretty much anything in order to accelarate the process of making them learn.

The system is called RoboEarth and is basically a universally accessible database that allows robots to upload and download information, maps and other usefull data. The project is funded by the European Union and is currently maned by 25 researchers.

I say kick them in the nuts before they realise they are more awsome than us, exterminate us and take over. Why don't those idiots hand them a super big-ass red lazer in order to shoot us as well? I am joking, of course, but I could not resist thiking silly stuff like that when I read it. Would you?

We are still alone.

A few days ago NASA ignited the imagination of everyone with a laconic press release about a news conference to announce a discovery in astrobiology.

The internet being what it is, the rumors began to grow and grow with most ignorant people thinking it would be concerning the discovery of intelligent life (unfortuantely, no intelligent life has yet been found on the internet*).

Of course that was not the case. The most ideal scenario would be the discovery of some micro-organism outside Earth.

Well they did find a micro-organism in the most bizzare and alien place imaginable: California!
The amazing thing about this bacteria discovered in lake Mono, is that it uses arsenic, a deadly poison, instead of phosphorus in it's DNA chain. This is the first organism we have discovered that can replace one of the six fundamental elements of all life (hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, sulphur and phosphorus).

This completely changes our conceptions of how life can evolve and it widens the spectrum of locations were we should be looking for evidence of life.

In the immortal words of Jeff Goldblum: "Life finds a way!"


*credits to hotshuk for this joke :P

Has the first evidence of extraterrestrial life been discovered?

It has been announce by NASA that a news conference will be held on the 2nd of December. The details are embargoed until then but the press release by NASA states that the topic will be "an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life".


Could it be that some evidence of extraterrestrial life has been discovered? If that is the case, what kind of organism can it be? 


I always firmly believed that life must be abundant in the universe, but the sheer vastness of it would make it difficult for us to discover since we are in our technological infancy.


Will our view of the universe change in 2 days? Will we live in an age when proof exists that Earth in not the only planet which supports life? Will science fiction become science fact?


I eagerly await the news conference to find out!