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(Science Daily) Interesting Life found on dead hydrothermal vents. Which makes them not so dead, Mr. Science-Pants   (sciencedaily.com) divider line 22
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2012-01-29 09:28:43 AM
I used to bullseye microbes that thrive on hot fluid methane and sulfur with my T-16 back home.
 
2012-01-29 10:41:29 AM
The vents are only mostly dead!
 
2012-01-29 11:34:36 AM
How is this news? Didn't we discover life on these same vents like two years ago?
 
2012-01-29 11:46:00 AM
How do you explain that, Mr. Scientist?

southparkstudios-intl.mtvnimages.com
 
2012-01-29 11:49:35 AM
I'm changing my Fark handle to "Mr. Science-Pants"
 
2012-01-29 11:51:56 AM
That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die.
 
2012-01-29 11:56:40 AM
proof of the afterlife.
he has risen
 
2012-01-29 12:12:14 PM
cdn.mos.totalfilm.com

/Approves
 
2012-01-29 12:17:05 PM
Fabric_Man: The vents are only mostly dead!

But the vents' last words were, "To blave."
 
2012-01-29 12:17:34 PM
Fabric_Man: The vents are only mostly dead!

They feel happy! They feel happy!

/Still won't get on the cart
 
2012-01-29 12:21:07 PM
FTA: The findings were published in an mBio article authored by Edwards, USC postdoctoral researcher Jason Sylvan and Brandy Toner of the University of Minnesota.

Looks like graduate school saved someone from being a stripper, or worse, an Epson sales rep. Or both.

/Hooray for extremophiles! Gave us PCR!
 
2012-01-29 12:23:21 PM
They just won't get on the damned cart.
 
2012-01-29 12:25:16 PM
LowbrowDeluxe: How is this news? Didn't we discover life on these same vents like two years ago?

I think the idea is that we used to think those lifeforms are reliant on heat and sulfur from the vents to survive, but now we've found that they can survive even the vents are dormant.
 
2012-01-29 12:51:39 PM
Those scientists better check their hypotenuses.
 
2012-01-29 12:54:12 PM
www.kevinmanningphotography.com

LOL WUT
 
2012-01-29 01:25:20 PM
This info suggests that extremophiles on Mars could still be eking out a living in subsurface brines, hiding out from the UV radiation. If we can find them, the news will turn over millennia of human thought that we are the only life in the universe.
It will have profound effects on philosophy and religion, though little immediate practical effect. As a Catholic, I would find the info interesting but by no means confounding to my faith: the bible story of the creation was written by men, trying to interpret their world in a framework they could understand. That the mechanism for our formation could be more exotic and convoluted than breathing life into a clay homunculus is not a problem, it still gets to the end result of "us". And that's every bit as awe-inspiring as any other version of God creating us. God by definition can do anything, even things we can't imagine.
 
2012-01-29 01:27:42 PM
At this point we should just assume that everywhere has some microbe or bacteria hanging around.

/cold dead vent something something subby's mom
 
2012-01-29 01:34:08 PM
The img1.fark.net tag would have been more appropriate.
 
2012-01-29 01:38:34 PM
i.qkme.me
 
2012-01-29 02:22:20 PM
lake_huron: FTA: The findings were published in an mBio article authored by Edwards, USC postdoctoral researcher Jason Sylvan and Brandy Toner of the University of Minnesota.

Looks like graduate school saved someone from being a stripper, or worse, an Epson sales rep. Or both.

/Hooray for extremophiles! Gave us PCR!


How do you think she paid for grad school?
 
2012-01-29 03:26:28 PM
WordsnCollision: [www.kevinmanningphotography.com image 490x662]

LOL WUT


Hydrothermal vents -- I don't think cats would sit on one of those.
 
2012-01-29 08:00:19 PM
A universe of death
Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds
Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things
Abominable, unutterable, and worse
Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived.

/That's John Milton, not Intruder, esq.
//See also: Deep Hot Biosphere (new window).
 
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