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Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans
NewScientist ^
| 22 May 2008
| Catherine Brahic
Posted on 05/24/2008 5:15:14 PM PDT by LibWhacker
It's the basement apartment like no other. Life has been found 1.6 kilometres beneath the sea floor, at temperatures reaching 100 °C.
The discovery marks the deepest living cells ever to be found beneath the sea floor. Bacteria have been found deeper underneath the continents, but there they are rare. In comparison, the rocks beneath the sea appear to be teeming with life.
John Parkes, a geobiologist at the University of Cardiff, UK, hopes his team's discovery might one day help find life on other planets. He says it might even redefine what we understand as life, and, bizarrely, what we understand by "age".
(Excerpt) Read more at environment.newscientist.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aging; beneath; biomass; crevo; cryptobiology; environment; godsgravesglyphs; marinebiology; oceans; prokaryotes
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To: neodad
Dammit neodad, I’m a doctor, not a bricklayer.
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05/24/2008 7:05:19 PM PDT
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NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
To: NewJerseyJoe
Yeah! One of my favorite episodes!
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05/24/2008 7:11:51 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Checkmate Cruiser")
To: LibWhacker
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05/24/2008 7:12:49 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: BipolarBob
The Horta were living rocks that could move through other rock formations with some sort of acid. Spock mindmelded with them to find they were “caring, emotional parents”.
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05/24/2008 9:31:26 PM PDT
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JSteff
(This election is NOT a presidential only. 3 to 5 Supremes' will retire! Vote accordingly)
To: montag813
“Something tells me they are going to use this discovery to try and ban all ocean oil exploration worldwide.”
My first thoughts on reading this too.
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05/24/2008 9:33:17 PM PDT
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JSteff
(This election is NOT a presidential only. 3 to 5 Supremes' will retire! Vote accordingly)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
05/24/2008 9:35:30 PM PDT
by
Rastus
To: tbw2
“Given the overfishing, that may come true.”
What over fishing? References please.
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05/24/2008 9:36:14 PM PDT
by
JSteff
(This election is NOT a presidential only. 3 to 5 Supremes' will retire! Vote accordingly)
This topic was posted , thanks LibWhacker.
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03/20/2022 3:57:04 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: LibWhacker
To: Rebelbase
OMG, I have ZERO memory of this article. And it’s only been four years. Looks like I’d remember something of it, anyway. I know my memory is fading, but this is scary. More so than the monster at the bottom of the sea.
Cool graphic.
To: LibWhacker; SunkenCiv
D’oh! I got caught in one of Sunkenciv’s indexing traps.
To: Rebelbase
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03/20/2022 7:12:46 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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