> Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 16/02/2008 Deborah Harrell quoted:
<snip> > > "...Researchers have found
> > microbes living in ice, in boiling water, in
> nuclear
> > reactors. These "strange" extremophiles may in
> fact be
> > the norm for life elsewhere in the cosmos..."
> Indeed, these "extremophiles" may be part of the
> route from chemistry -
> > complex self-sustaining reactions (hypercycles)
> -> chemical cells -
> > recognisable life -> biomes and ecosystems.
It was really neat to see the various colored
algae/bacterial mats in Yellowstone's geysers and
mudpots, and red algae (I presume) in high Rockies
snow. If I was to go back to research, that's what
I'd do.
Debbi
Check It Out Maru :)
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