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remember the thread about cheep-ass way-cool horror movies ? and that film "The Stuff" about the gunk coming out of the ground that tastes yummy and then eats your brain ? hey well it's backed up by SCIENCE ! right here NASA says that these underground bacteria could taste delicious AND eat your brain. ----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:09:35 -0800 (PST) To: undisclosed-recipients:; Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hydrogen-Fed Bacteria May Exist Beyond Earth John Bluck April 3, 2002 NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Phone: 650/604-5026 or 604-9000 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RELEASE: 02-37AR HYDROGEN-FED BACTERIA MAY EXIST BEYOND EARTH Primitive bacteria exist in huge numbers deep in the Earth, living on hydrogen gas produced in rocks, a NASA scientist reports in the spring issue of the journal Astrobiology. Recent studies suggest that the mass of bacteria existing below ground may be larger than the mass of all living things at the Earth's surface, according to recent studies cited by the paper's lead author, Friedemann Freund, who works at NASA Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley. Similar hydrogen-consuming microbes may some day be discovered on Mars, raising new prospects for the possible existence of life beyond Earth, Freund added. "The hydrogen that could feed bacteria in the depth of the Earth comes from a subtle chemical reaction that occurs within rocks that were once hot or even molten. In the top 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) of Earth's crust," Freund said, "the conditions are right to produce a nearly inexhaustible supply of hydrogen. [..]
