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
3 comments:
This is a fascinating article!
Why haven't we found life like this on other planets? I'm sure we have.
Remember the Viking tests were actually positives but JPL thinks they were inconclusive.
Well Somiktemple, I think they have found life on other planets but they not tell us the truth.
What is puzzle me this time is why NASA decided to send MSL in 2009 without the sample cache device. They spend $2 millions for that basket and suddenly decided to throw it to the garbage.
If it was a school project I understand that some calculation have not made quite right but in this case....what are they excuses?
1. The science value of the equipment was considered probably low
2. The cache equipment was occupying real estate that could be used for an observation tray and another tool.
I think that the quantity of life evidence was so big that the basket volume was insufficient.
Because you don't want to send some rough boulder from Mars to Earth just to see them better.
End to send a MSL with a basket that can store a huge quantity sure gonna rise some suspicions and many uncomfortable questions.
So, why not send MSL with a tinny basket?
Tinny but...still...$2 Million?!
Better make some secret compartment on the MSL, not share this info to the media, announce that for the MSL will be NO basket and that's it!
P.S.
Sorry to post your comment so late.
Please note that a post to the darkmission blog thread "Is This Nibiru?" was prevented from appearing by Mike Bara.
The censored post can be seen here under the title "Is This Nibiru? No, Mike, It Isn't":
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