Thanks ETL.
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Posted on 12/10/2018 11:43:51 AM PST by ETL
I can't say I understand all of this, other than that it shows there is an urgent need for more government regulation to save these threatened life forms.
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And the giant mushrooms looked tasty.
“If they can live in such harsh environments the surface world could be a bonanza for them and a disaster for us. “
Actually no. They have adapted to this extreme harsh environment and that is where they thrive. Take them out of that environment and they die as the new environment is harsh to them. A perfect example is the Thermopylae bacteria that live in the boiling springs in Yellowstone park. Take that bacteria out of the springs and it dies.
Actually we have been exposed to these bacteria over the eons. When great meteors hit the earth ejecta from the impact scattered material from deep within the earth over the surface. Do not worry about the bugs deep in the earth.
Click the below link to see the effects of a large meteor impacting the earth.
https://www.livescience.com/56914-dino-killing-asteroid-punched-through-earths-crust.html
These changes may have proven critical for the evolution of life on Earth, and perhaps on other planets, Gulick said. "When you get rocks with 10 percent more pore space, microbial life living below the surface may find new habitats on the surface," he said. "Our next area of research involves looking at whether ecosystems can get started by craters."
I was thinking the leftists might say the bacteria are causing global warming and then insist the bacteria be protected....
Thanks ETL.
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Throws a wrinkle in the peak oil myth, eh?
I had a petroleum engineering prof that told us to keep our minds open to what may seem doubtful at the time. He was a brilliant old fart, yet lived on the cutting edge of technology.
Seems like good common sense to me. As we know, arrogant lib scientists are always quick to except something as fact and rule everything else out. Then later they are shown to be the know-it-all jerks that they are.
BTW, I was a geology major back in the 80s. Nearly completed a BS, but for one geology field trip course and a few dopey non-major courses.
I was at a geology meeting a few months ago talking about the Missoula floods - where the ice dams from the continental glaciers would rupture sending huge floods of water into Washington state which carved out huge river channels, created huge hills, etc. All in a day or two (happened repeatedly over thousands of years as the dam would refreeze, rupture, repeat.
When the guy first proposed that these features were from huge floods he was laughed at (in the 1920’s).
There was a guy at the USGS that let this guy on the rope for many years. When the USGS guy finally retired in the 40’s and got his pension, then he came out with his years and years of research that completed the missing puzzle on the catastrophic nature of the geology. He would have been fired if he had gone against the “known science” of geology being slow and steady forces over large lengths of time.
When a politician screws up, he might lose an election. When a scientist screws up, he might lose a grant.
When an engineer screws up, he could lose a city. Who’d you trust?
How do they know? Did they go down there and measure it all?
Now that’s funny
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