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Halophile Microbes In Mediterranean Salt Pockets

Posted by timothy on from the come-on-in-the-water's-salty dept.

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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  1. Old by Handbrewer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The news that extremophiles can survive outher space is veery old. The little bugger called Tardigrada is pretty hard to kill :).

  2. blah, skimpy article. by ForestGrump · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I want to know where their energy comes from. not from light probably. Redox on the salts?

    Grump who barely passed chem/bio.

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