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Microbes from "Hell"


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Just read this article http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ancient-microbes-from-hell-found-trapped-in-crystal-deep-underground/ar-AAn4ufk?li=BBoPOOl&ocid=mailsignout

Amazing huge crystals found inside caverns in Chihuahua, 'like being inside a geode'. But inside the crystals were ancient microbes. The chances of there being life outside our world just got bigger! Proving it though might be rather more difficult.

Ian

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Would that prove that microbes can evolve over a few billion years to survive in a crystal under ground, not that they started out there from day 1?

Thought process being that life starts in the most suitable place it can, then spreads and evolves to fill in the less perfect niches, not that it starts in the least hospitable.

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2 hours ago, ronin said:

Would that prove that microbes can evolve over a few billion years to survive in a crystal under ground, not that they started out there from day 1?

Thought process being that life starts in the most suitable place it can, then spreads and evolves to fill in the less perfect niches, not that it starts in the least hospitable.

But I guess the most suitable place might still not be very hospitable. Presumably the origins of the crystals would have been pretty hostile. Is it the case that microbes living around the deep sea volcanic vents acclimatised themselves to those conditions, after moving from elsewhere, or did they originate in those, presumably primaeval, conditions?

Ian

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