The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
So I happen across this article:
Scientists Publish Controversial Paper About Extra-Terrestrial Life on Meteorites
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/scientists-publish-controversial-paper-about-extra-terrestrial-life-meteorites
and think to myself, “that is quite interesting that there should be such ‘definitive’ evidence of extraterrestrial life and I am only finding out …
Chemical bond shields extreme microbes from poison
Molecular structure explains how ‘arsenic life’ bacteria rely on phosphate instead
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/345502/title/Chemical_bond_shields_extreme_microbes_from_poison
I mention this research before here, if you are interested in a tiny bit of background. The interesting thing to …
Could these strange new microbes survive on Mars?
http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/63941-could-these-strange-new-microbes-survive-on-mars
As our ability to better detect the presence of life increases in sensitivity, the locations where we find life increasingly making it easy to wonder if there are any locations on …
Sun’s Sibling Stars Could Host Cousins of Earth Life
http://www.space.com/15192-sun-siblings-asteroids-earth-life.html
This is, of course, nothing more than Panspermia, but it is interesting in the idea that we might have sibling solar systems (relatively) nearby that could be seeded with …
Deep Life
Teeming masses of organisms thrive beneath the seafloor
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/337918/title/Deep_Life
I love this sort of stuff. Sometimes (often) scientists in mature (or thought to be mature) disciplines get all cocking thinking they know everything (or at least know what …