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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks neverdem. [M]any bacteria live deep in the oceans and deep in the earth, far from light, far from what we normally think of as good, comfortable places to live... the bottom of the Mariana Trench... 11 kilometers (almost 7 miles) below the surface of the sea... there are bacteria. Some of them won't grow at all unless the atmospheric pressure is at least 50 megapascals (around 7,000 pounds per square inch), and they grow better if the pressure is greater -- 70 megapascals (more than 10,000 pounds per square inch). For comparison, the pressure at sea level -- the pressure we have evolved to bear -- is 700 times less. Then there are the "intraterrestrials" -- the organisms that live in rocks deep in the earth, the creatures of the "deep subsurface biosphere." Bacteria have been found in rock samples taken several hundred meters below the sea floor, even when the sea floor itself is 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) below sea level. Thomas Gold-related. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are Blam, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[djf]

Think they did some drilling in Sweden and pulled up solid rock cores from some 25,000 feet or so.

Solid rock cores that had bacteria in them that lived on minutes quantities of Hydrogen sulfide that was able to filter through the rocks.

Amazing!

That’s why I always chuckle a bit when someone talks about killing all the life on Earth.

Heck, short of a 30 meagaton bomb going off 500 feet over your head, it’d be near impossible to wipe out all the life that lives on a regular city block!

And odds are that a good number of the cockroaches there would get through it with little more than a mild sunburn anyways!

[Pelham]

Microbes?!

I thought intraterrestrials was about Morlochs and Eloi...