Scientists Discover Least Inhabited Place on Earth

[Scientists Discover Least Inhabited Place on Earth] - Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The sparse microbes the scientists discovered appeared to be partially subsisting on hydrogen atoms released when radioactive elements at the bottom of the ocean decayed and broke apart water molecules.

This somewhat rare process produces only small amounts of food. The other half of the microbes' diet comes from organic matter that drifts from the surface down to the depths of the ocean.

"If you can support the concentrations we see on a food source that's basically half hydrogen from the radioactive splitting of water, then maybe you can support a few hundred cells in wet sediments on Mars or Europa," D'Hondt said. "It suggests that life is resilient enough under very low access to food."

There are many potential ways for life to exist on Mars.

Yup thats what i heard from an extremophils research fellow recently as well

I suspect that history will reveal that St. NASA withheld crucial data on ET extremophiles, which delayed the discovery of unique forms of energy conversion by many years, if not decades.

I have a strong belief that in the future, we'll use extremophiles for large scale energy conversion processes.

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The thing that bothers me is that extremophiles are only found on Earthand NOWHERE else!!

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The existance of extremophiles on other Worlds would be pretty hard to detect without actually going there to have a long hard look, perhaps there is a possibility in some instances the ingredients for life is there. Our Solar System and our Galaxy must be replicated 100,000's of times throughout the Universe past present and future and life forms found here will exist elsewhere. I am not sure about NASA covering up the existance of Microbal life on Mars or the Men in Black surpressing info on Alien visits to Earth surely like being the first on the Moon you would want to be the one that proves life exists elsewhere.
Here is another possibility let's build some cheap bots and get them up there and go to Titan, Europa Calisto et al

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8115148.stm