DailyDirt: Life Abhors A Vacuum

from the urls-we-dig-up dept

Biologists continue to find signs of life in some of the most remote places on Earth. A variety of organisms seem to be able to thrive under harsh conditions that are similar to extra-terrestrial places elsewhere in our solar system. So finding these extremophiles could point us towards good places to find alien life forms on other planets or moons or asteroids... Here are just a few more examples of some really tough microorganisms. If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post.
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Filed Under: bacteria, biology, extremophiles, frost flowers, life, microorganisms, troposphere


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    gnudist, 7 Feb 2013 @ 1:48am

    Life uhhh.... finds a way

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    Anonymous Coward, 7 Feb 2013 @ 8:51am

    I really hope they find life on Mars soon...

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    Anonymous Coward, 7 Feb 2013 @ 3:57pm

    I abhor a vacuum too, and my house shows it.

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