'Worms From Hell' Unearth Possibilities For Extraterrestrial Life

Posted by Roblimo on Thursday June 2, 2011 @02:12AM from the it's-life-Jim-but-not-as-we-know-it dept.

An anonymously submitted article says, "For the first time, scientists have found complex, multi-celled creatures living a mile and more below the planet’s surface, raising new possibilities about the spread of life on Earth and potential subsurface life on other planets and moons (abstract). ... The research is likely to trigger scientific challenges and cause some controversy because it places far more complex life in an environment where researchers have generally held it should not, or even cannot, exist."

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For those who want to RTFA by Mindcontrolled · 2011-06-02 02:23 · Score: 4, Informative

Here is at least some information for it at Nature. Wherever there is some usable energy, some kind of life seems to attach to it. Fascinating.

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Re:is it just me? by Roblimo · 2011-06-02 02:48 · Score: 4, Informative

There's a bug of some sort. I'm putting the link in right, but something is wrong. The link is to this WaPo story.