[WestVirginiaRebel]

"Let's get...small..."

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phylum, Dan O...

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

really cool small stuff, your favorite!

[gcruse]

Fascinating.

[GnuHere]

Uh, I read that last word wrong at first.

[ApplegateRanch]

"Let's get...small..."

Like discovering that the little 'fleas' that feed on the fleas that feed on you, have smaller 'fleas' yet, parasitising them...

slime the floors of mines and convert iron to acid, a common source of stream pollution around the world...a totally new phylum of Archaea

Named for Arches National Park, because the acid eats away the iron in the sandstone, leaving the sillyca-cemented grains, thus forming the arches over aeons of time.

Running, while ducking a hail of meadow muffins, and asking, "was that small enough?". ;-)

[SunkenCiv]

extremophile life on other worlds, panspermia, other stuff:

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[darth]

I first heard of nanobacteria when the scientists who examined the Allen Hills martian meteorite presented a paper on their findings. It looks like they found fossil evidence of nanobacteria inside a rock that originated on Mars. Its possible that many human diseases are caused by bacteria that are so small we can't detect them and which are hard to culture.