Candidatus Desulforudis Audaxviator

I spot this info from newscientist website.

Scientist found an interesting bug in a goldmine in South Africa, its 60°C home is completely isolated from the rest of the world, and devoid of light and oxygen.

"A bug discovered deep in a goldmine and nicknamed "the bold traveler" has got astrobiologists buzzing with excitement. Its unique ability to live in complete isolation of any other living species suggests it could be the key to life on other planets."

"Chivian's analysis shows that D. audaxviator gets its energy from the radioactive decay of uranium in the surrounding rocks. It has genes to extract carbon from dissolved carbon dioxide and other genes to fix nitrogen, which comes from the surrounding rocks."

"Chris McKay, of NASA's Ames Research Center says that D. audaxviator is an amazing discovery, and represents the kind or organism that could survive below the surface of Mars or Saturn's sixth largest moon Enceladus."

"It can't handle oxygen," he says. This suggests it has not been exposed to pure oxygen for a long time. The water in which D. audaxviator lives has not seen the light of day in over 3 million years, and this could be an indication of how old the species is."

Here is the link of the article

Re photo-processing of the "data's head"

Expat claim on his blog that the photo of the "data's head" that Richard C. Hoagland present to the public on his website and on the DM book is a fraud, I did my own research. And this is the result:


What I did to the photo:

1. open in Adobe Photoshop CS2

2. crop the photo

3. duplicate the layer

4. Image/adjustments/ hue/saturation and increase the value of saturation to +72

5. duplicate the layer and change the layer to color burn and put the opacity to 50%

This is a rough and quick enhancement of the "data's head" that I've done on the "AS17-137-21000HR" image.

So, expat....can you see the red line on the "mouth" area now?

Richard C. Hoagland processing was found NOT to be fraudulent!