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		eru on Dec 2, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's not an arsenic-based life form So even if there weren't arsenate based to begin with, now we do have artificial arsenate life forms?

hartror on Dec 2, 2010 [–]

Depends on what you mean with the term artificial. We have artificial arsenate life forms in the same way we have artificial tame wolves.

eru on Dec 3, 2010 | [–]

Yes. What I meant: Even if we didn't have arsenate life forms, now we do.

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