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« on: Aug 15th, 2003, 10:57pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Microbe Makes Hell Its Home
Fri Aug 15,10:27 AM ET  
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A microbe that thrives in boiling water and "breathes" iron has stretched the limits of where scientists believed life could exist, according to a recent report.  
 
The bacteria-like organism lives in a hellish undersea environment where water boils out from underwater vents called black smokers. There is no light, the pressure of the water would instantly crush anything living on land and the water is loaded with toxic chemicals.  
 
The discovery suggests that life could exist on planets very different from Earth. It also suggests that life did not always evolve in the ways biology teaches -- in warm, soupy waters bathed in sunlight on the planet's surface.  
 
Kazem Kashefi and Derek Lovley of the University of Massachusetts tested a sample of water collected about 200 miles off Puget Sound and nearly a mile and a half below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.  
 
The water was collected by a University of Washington team looking for archaea, bacteria-like organisms that live in extreme environments.  
 
The area they explored can be reached only by remotely operated submarines. Known as the Juan de Fuca Ridge, it is marked by black smokers that rise the equivalent of four stories.
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« Reply #1 on: Aug 16th, 2003, 8:35am »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Your article creeped me out Rhune!  Shiver me timbers...
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« Reply #2 on: Aug 16th, 2003, 4:37pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Thanks for the warning, next time on a sub I'll make sure NOT to  take one powered by remote!
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This sounds spooky, all laughing aside!   :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:
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« Reply #3 on: Aug 16th, 2003, 7:29pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
Now, I think it's pretty cool that we have found life that exists differently than we know it.  I like the idea that this means life could in fact exist on other worlds different from our own.
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The discovery suggests that life could exist on planets very different from Earth. It also suggests that life did not always evolve in the ways biology teaches -- in warm, soupy waters bathed in sunlight on the planet's surface.  

 
i find this part intriguing too.  i wonder what darwinians would say about this.
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« Reply #5 on: Aug 17th, 2003, 11:06pm »		 Quote Quote Modify Modify
on Aug 16th, 2003, 7:29pm, Rhune wrote:
Now, I think it's pretty cool that we have found life that exists differently than we know it.  I like the idea that this means life could in fact exist on other worlds different from our own.

 
 
This is nothing new.
 
I have known for YEARS that life exists on another world different from our own . . . . . . . .  
 
. . . . . . . I have an ex-wife. Grin
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:laff:   Shocked   :laff:
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