Titan tie-in: Extremophile Hunt Begins

[Charlie Bell]

On 16/02/2008, at 9:52 AM, Deborah Harrell wrote:
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> "One thing we've learned in recent years," notes
> Hoover, "is that you don't have to have a 'Goldilocks'
> zone with perfect temperature, a certain pH level, and
> so forth, for life to thrive." Researchers have found
> microbes living in ice, in boiling water, in nuclear
> reactors. These "strange" extremophiles may in fact be
> the norm for life elsewhere in the cosmos..."

Indeed, these "extremophiles" may be part of the route from chemistry - 
 > complex self-sustaining reactions (hypercycles) -> chemical cells - 
 > recognisable life -> biomes and ecosystems.

Charlie.