Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust

michaelmarshall writes "For the first time, life has been found in the gabbroic layer of the crust. The new biosphere is all bacteria, as you might expect, but they are different from the bacteria in the layers above; they mostly feed on hydrocarbons that are produced by abiotic reactions deep in the crust. It could mean that similar microbes are living even deeper, perhaps even in the mantle."

Comments

Re:Just proving the rule....

[spun]

No, you were correctly moderated for being an ignorant belligerent asshole. Welcome to the real world. You aren't as special as you think. You are not smarter than everyone else. Your point of view is just a point of view, it is not "The Truth."

Re:Ergo oil

[Chris Burke]

Be honest. Your desire to take Mcbrids for a lynchin' has to little do with arrogance and everything to do with telling you something that you don't want to hear. You love it when some conservative pundit arrogantly derides the liberal nonsense of Peak Oil. But when it's something you don't want to hear, and you can't help but realize that they're right, then suddenly you're mad because they're so arrogant about it. It is to laugh.

Oh and stop appropriating "the masses"; there are plenty of folk who don't think ignorance is a virtue and who aren't going to destroy the environment out of spite because they're mad at being made to look foolish.

Re:Life elsewhere...

[marcosdumay]

"Probabilistically, there are other Earth like planets with similar benevolent condition."

Unless you have a secret telescope technology that is way over what any other human can currently do, you can not affirm that.

"It is almost a certainty that simple lifeforms exists in outer space."

No, there is nothing certain about that either. I'm a big fan of the hypotesis of panspermy, but you are just lying to yourself. We know nothing about that yet (neither in the positive nor the negative sense).

"For example there is an hypothesis that if the asteroid didn't strike the Earth, we would have reptilian senients evolved from the Troodon which had semi prensil opposed claws, stereoscopic vision and more importantly a constant encephalic development before its extinction."

And that is the crasyest part of your comment. We do know that technology opens a ninche for a species, but we have no idea on the requirements (nor the odds) on the evolution of an inteligent species. What remained from the dinossaus is a bunch of pretty dumb animals (and not very repitilian, by the way), and there is no evidence that any of them was evolving into an inteligent being.

Re:Ergo oil

[Chris Burke]

As a liberal, I have to say mcrbids was being a bit of an arrogant ass, and I don't see why that's not reason enough to be pissed at him. Let's stick to reality and not play the pundit game.

Reality is that the OP was being a fool who hadn't even read the summary in his haste to assume this meant oil was a renewable resource in a practical sense, that what he had already believed had been inevitably proven correct.

How exactly is that not incredibly arrogant, and undeserving of a smack-down?

And fuck "the pundit game", I'm serious, arrogance is not abhorred as long as it's the right thing being said arrogantly. So I don't care if that's reason enough to be pissed, that's not why the AC was pissed.