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Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust

Posted by Soulskill on from the gabbroic-added-to-spellchecker dept.

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."

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  1. pervasive by tibbar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    on the plus side ...
    it is likely humans can't make it extinct

  2. Tonight is cunt night by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    :)

  3. Re:Living under surface by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Reading all the replies to this post makes me happy. There *do* appear to be rational, sane logical adults here. But go to a Space Nutter thread and suddenly it's "We must colonize the universe!" "For the species!" "We're running out of room!" "Wahh!"

    Proof yet again Space Nuttery is the realm of schizoid, deluded, paranoid quasi-religious doomsday-cultist fruitcakes with no grasp of reality.

    Now go straighten your 1970's space posters, space wackjobs.