Methane-Eating Bacteria May Presage ET Life

asukasoryu sends along an intriguing piece in light of our recent discussion of possible signs of life on Saturn's moon Titan. "Researchers have discovered that methane-eating bacteria survive in a unique spring located on Axel Heiberg Island in Canada's extreme north. The subzero water is so salty that it doesn't freeze despite the cold, and it has no consumable oxygen in it. There are, however, big bubbles of methane that come to the surface. Lyle Whyte, McGill University microbiologist, explains that the so-called Lost Hammer spring supports microbial life, that the spring is similar to possible past or present springs on Mars, and that therefore they too could support life."

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Every year, for sure

[Herve5]

Do you realize what you are writing?

You tell us that *every year*, we are impacted by meteoroids so gigantic that the blast sends tons of rock into space.

I'd find humiliating to even ask you where were last year's impacts.

Slashdot looks more and more like the worst sides of Wikipedia: this guy must be right, since he points to an existing url, even if its affirmation is pathetic. Let's mod him interesting.

"Every year".
Convincing.
I suppose now some guy will come telling me it's on the average, on a billion years, that was just a way to talk. Sure.