Life is tenacious...

[Shannow]

New species (or maybe Genus), found in environment designed to be specifically hostile to life.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scien...lean-rooms.html

http://ntbpdf.techbriefs.net/2012/NTB0612.pdf

 

[simple_gifts]

"Life finds a way" --Ian Malcolm

 

[dlundblad]

Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
"Life finds a way" --Ian Malcolm


The first thing I thought of when I read the word tenacious was Jurassic Park.

I cant wait until the new one comes out.. if it ever does. lol

 

[Rick in PA]

This is interesting, life evolving under our (inadvertent) guidance. I've often thought of the Earth as a large globe covered by a bio-film. If we ever did get visitors from another part of the galaxy I'm sure they would find this a most interesting place.

 

[JHZR2]

Quote:
“The same bug might be in the soil outside the clean room but we wouldn't necessarily identify it there because it would be hidden by the overwhelming numbers of other bugs."


so now any findings in other environments will be completely irrelevant because the sterility claim was proven false. Who knows what we have dumped on different planets and moons...

 

[andyd]

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle rears its ugly head.

If the tenacity of life is so prevalent here, is it reasonable to expect to find it so everywhere else?

If life is universal, what drives it? Should I spend time and energy looking for the answers? Or could the time be better spent enjoying and embracing the life I have?

 

[Finz]

Originally Posted By: andyd
Or could the time be better spent enjoying and embracing the life I have?

+1... My New Year's resolution (again)

 

[GenSan]

Extremophiles, as their name implies, flourish in the most inhospitable places, on Earth, where other forms of life would perish.

-thermophiles: survive at temperatures between ~120° and 160° Fahrenheit
-hyperthermophiles: survive at temperatures between ~175° and 250° Fahrenheit
-psychrophiles: survive at temperatures between ~ -25° and 39° Fahrenheit
-acidophiles: survive under high acidity conditions
-alkalophiles: survive under extreme alkaline conditions
-halophiles: survive in environments containing 20–30 percent salt
-barophiles: survive at pressures 300–700 times sea level air pressure
-radiotolerants: can survive a high radioactive environment
-xerophiles: can survive in extremely dry environments
-metalotolerants: can survive high levels of dissolved heavy metals
-polyextremophiles: an extremophile in more than one category

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: andyd
Should I spend time and energy looking for the answers?


To what end?

"The [censored] [BITOG MODS: YOU SERIOUSLY CENSOR THE WORD B U D D H A?! Who on earth takes offense to this dude?] always told his disciples not to waste their time and energy in metaphysical speculation. Whenever he was asked a metaphysical question, he remained silent. Instead, he directed his disciples toward practical efforts.

Questioned one day about the problem of the infinity of the world, the [censored] said, "Whether the world is finite or infinite, limited or unlimited, the problem of your liberation remains the same." Another time he said, "Suppose a man is struck by a poisoned arrow and the doctor wishes to take out the arrow immediately. Suppose the man does not want the arrow removed until he knows who shot it, his age, his parents, and why he shot it. What would happen? If he were to wait until all these questions have been answered, the man might die first." Life is so short. It must not be spent in endless metaphysical speculation that does not bring us any closer to the truth."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

 

[The_Eric]

Is this bacteria harmful, beneficial or benign to us?

Makes me wonder, if this new bug is resistant to all kinds of things that normally nuke bacteria, what kinds of antibiotics is it resistant to?

 

[Shannow]

I would posit that it hasn't been around antibiotics, so it wouldn't have developed resistance...can't say for sure 'though.

 

[charlesezell]

Trying to think about it. How many times have you placed a stress on yourselves that totally sapped us dry of energy and for what?You worry about those things which usually never come true in the first place.

 

[SteveSRT8]

Originally Posted By: Rick in PA
This is interesting, life evolving under our (inadvertent) guidance. I've often thought of the Earth as a large globe covered by a bio-film. If we ever did get visitors from another part of the galaxy I'm sure they would find this a most interesting place.


One of my old sci-fi books was about aliens who monitored Earth secretly for a while and concluded that Humans were the problem! They then tried to exterminate us!

Amazingly adaptive and flexible, life is indeed miraculous. I'm sure there is much more that we do not even know...

 

[Rick in PA]

Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8
Originally Posted By: Rick in PA
This is interesting, life evolving under our (inadvertent) guidance. I've often thought of the Earth as a large globe covered by a bio-film. If we ever did get visitors from another part of the galaxy I'm sure they would find this a most interesting place.


One of my old sci-fi books was about aliens who monitored Earth secretly for a while and concluded that Humans were the problem! They then tried to exterminate us!...


Ha, ha, ha, hmmmmm...

 

[SteveSRT8]

You can imagine that from space we look like an infection....