Titan tie-in: Extremophile Hunt Begins

[Deborah Harrell]

> Charlie Bell <charlie at culturelist.org> wrote:
> >On 16/02/2008 Deborah Harrell quoted:

<snip> > > "...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.

It was really neat to see the various colored
algae/bacterial mats in Yellowstone's geysers and
mudpots, and red algae (I presume) in high Rockies
snow.  If I was to go back to research, that's what
I'd do.

Debbi
Check It Out Maru  :)


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