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There is a link to the LONDON TIMES where the article first appeared but it won't work from where I have this saved (my bookmarks) Any way--here is a little more I captured!
This from the Fox News Web Page--
"Aliens may be living among us, but we wouldn't know it because they'd be microbes that do not have the standard biochemistry of Earth-dwelling organisms.
As well as the many forms of life based on DNA that are known to science, the Earth may be home to "shadow life," a second creation of organisms that make up an unnoticed realm of "life as we don't know it," according to Paul Davies of Arizona State University, a cosmologist and theorist of extraterrestrial life.
Such "weird life" would never have been identified by scientists because the techniques we use for studying microbes are based on the familiar biological processes that drive the living things we understand, Davies told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Chicago on Saturday.
The identification of such life on Earth could aid efforts to find life on Mars or elsewhere in the solar system.
A second terrestrial creation would also indicate that life arises easily when the conditions are right, suggesting that it is common throughout the universe.
The search for aliens should thus begin at home in a "mission to Earth," Davies said."
STAY TUNED--HERE IS SOMETHING RELATED I FOUND JUST NOW!!
"NEW ARTIFICIAL DNA POINTS TO ALIEN LIFE"
"The wild biochemistry finding, described to a small group of reporters Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, offers ideas about new types of life for scientists to look for beyond our planet, or even possibly hidden on our planet.
"Unless it happens to shoot at you with a ray gun, the life that you encounter off of Earth will not necessarily have same biochemistry as us," Benner said."
THERE IS MORE--It starts off that "In a Chicago Lab they have a beaker with I believe it said 4 OZ of artificial DNA--This is on the FOX Sceintific Channel, part of the news but on another page. (If anyone but me is interested.)
Imagine! Smallville may be a forerunner to a real-life story --
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