Halophile Microbes In Mediterranean Salt Pockets

Gebraucht von Neuwagen writes "This finding adds extremely salty water to the extreme environments where extremophiles can live. The Discovery Basin contains a brine that has the highest concentration of magnesium chloride found thus far in a marine environment; such concentrations are considered anathema to life. The researcher was quoted saying: "This in turn adds to arguments that life could exist outside the Earth""

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[myukew]

This is no proof that there probably is life on other planets. We can see here that life can evolve to adapt to such extreme environments but this doesn't mean life can begin in such places.
The first biological, self replicating molecules were probably quite fragile and would certainly "die" in extreme environments

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[krymsin01]

The reason it seems that life "needs" special conditions to begin is that we've only seen one way it can/has happened. Unfortunately (or fortunately) the question of life elsewhere is still pretty much in the realm of the philosophic.