LIfe thrives in even the harshest of conditions here - check out a few of the denizens of Mono Lake: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/30jul_monolake.htm?list818490
"Mark Twain didn't think much of California's Mono Lake. ""It lies in a lifeless, treeless, hideous desert," he wrote in his 1872 travelogue, Roughing It. "This solemn, silent, sailless sea--this lonely tenant of the loneliest spot on earth--is little graced with the picturesque." "Astrobiologist Richard Hoover of NASA's National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) in Huntsville, Alabama, has a different view: "It's beautiful," he says... "...The shrimp are merely one example. There's also a species of scuba-diving fly that settles mostly on the beach but sometimes swims in the water, too, navigating the lake in tiny submarine air bubbles. The lake also provides a home to microorganisms such as diatoms, cyanobacteria and filamentious algae..." And here is a lovely sunrise over the lake: http://www.venhaus1.com/monolakesunrise.html This is another site about extremophiles, as at hydrothermal sea vents, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life in our solar system: http://www.es.ucl.ac.uk/research/planet/student/work/whiting/main.htm Tufa Enougha Maru ;) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
