re: #36 Fozzie Bear

What’s huge about this is that you could apply the same principle to any number of other elemental transpositions. it means the search for life could yield fruit in MANY more places than we thought. It means life is probably much more common than we think.

It’s hard to overhype this. this is huge.

If this life had evolved in parallel from a different self-replicator as the shadow biosphere hypothesis states, this would be a lot bigger since it would mean that life started at least twice here, indicating it’s likely VERY common. Instead it’s bacteria related to us that is now able to adapt to work on a different basis. It’s still a huge deal, just not what is being claimed in some places.