Life Confirmed At Extreme Depths

Posted by timothy on Monday December 9, 2002 @11:01AM from the you'll-need-a-serious-deodorant dept.

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."

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I thought this... by craenor · 2002-12-09 11:15 · Score: 2, Redundant

Was talking about life being found at /.

Then I realized they weren't talking about depths of depravity...oh well.
Re:IN SOIVET RUSIA by ekrout · 2002-12-09 11:54 · Score: 2, Redundant

In Soviet Russia, funny fifteen years ago stopped being this joke!!!

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