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Re: OT? Another Extremophile Found

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nuny@bid.nes <Alien8752@gmail.com> wrote:
>  A previously unknown bacterium found deep in an African gold mine in
>  2008 was also found deep below Death Valley in 2012. It can't stand
>  oxygen, thrives at 60 C and pH above 9, uses sulfate as its oxidizer
>  of choice, and is the only organism found in its environment, meaning
>  it makes everything it needs to live from water and rocks. The kicker
>  is that the sulfate comes from hydrogen sulfide broken down by
>  radiation from uranium in the rocks around it!
>
> http://almlab.mit.edu/news.10102008.html
>
>  It's named Desulforudis audaxviator, inspired by a line from Verne's
>  _Journey To The Center Of The Earth_.
>
>  Typical of what we can expect to find deep inside Mars and certain
> Saturnian and Jovian moons? Perhaps...

That's a great name. And the Intelligent Design's not bad either. :0)
This thread's more on topic than most of them.

Thank you,

--
Don Kuenz KB7RPU

I study the lives on a leaf: the little
Sleepers, numb nudgers in cold dimensions,
Beetles in caves, nets, stone-deaf fishes,
Lice tethered to long limp subterranean weeds,
Squirmers in bogs,
And bacterial creepers.
  - Theodore Roethke

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OT? Another Extremophile Found "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-10-16 16:56 -0700
  Re: OT? Another Extremophile Found Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> - 2016-10-17 13:49 +0000
  OT? Another Extremophile Found "artyw2@yahoo.com" <artyw2@yahoo.com> - 2016-10-17 09:57 -0700
    Re: OT? Another Extremophile Found "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-10-17 13:17 -0700
      Re: OT? Another Extremophile Found Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-10-17 13:40 -0700

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