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Life Confirmed At Extreme Depths
SEWilco writes "A few years ago the life forms around deep-ocean thermal vents were a surprise. Now ancient bacteria alive in rock 2 miles down have been found. The story is in the San Francisco Chronicle. It is also at Nature.Com, but that server is already rejecting connects. Other bacteria survived frozen in the pressures of an ocean 100 miles deep. This increases the known limits of where life can exist on any planet. Thomas Gold undoubtedly is not surprised at hot, deep bacteria living on hydrogen."
It is also at Nature.Com, but that server is already rejecting connects.
Life always finds a way to survive. Now, evolution has provided us with a website that can anticipate and avoid the slashdot effect.
Uh, RTFA?
-- Other bacteria, frozen into chunks of ice in a Washington laboratory, have thrived inside a high-pressure container and went right on reproducing after they were exposed to pressures equivalent to life at the bottom of an ocean 100 miles deep.
Oh, right. Forgot that no one reads the article anymore...
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You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
Could this be a landmark case of quantum theory manifesting itself in our macroscopic world? No, I'm not talking about the bacteria, let me quote from above:
> It is also at Nature.Com, but that server is already rejecting connects.
Effect preceeding Cause -- a server going down just *before* being Slashdotted. What's next, "first posts" before the topic is up? Stories repeated before they're posted in the first place? Dogs and cats living together?!
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
Jules Verne wrote of life way beneath the surface of the Earth!!
Geez... some news flash... it's only 131 years late!
Humans (which I am one)
You KNOW you're hanging out at the wrong forum when someone has to preface their comment with THAT.
The oil they're pushing up at us is part of a deliberate plot.
With an infinite supply of oil, we'll soon burn out way into a cataclysmic Greenhouse Effect that will turn the Earth into a moist version of Venus, allowing them to colonize the surface.
You've been warned!
Stefan
Bubba: "Anyway, like I was sayin', subterranean bacteria is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. Dey's uh, subterranean bacteria-kabobs, subterranean bacteria creole, subterranean bacteria gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple subterranean bacteria, lemon subterranean bacteria, coconut subterranean bacteria, pepper subterranean bacteria, subterranean bacteria soup, subterranean bacteria stew, subterranean bacteria salad, subterranean bacteria and potatoes, subterranean bacteria burger, subterranean bacteria sandwich. That- that's about it."