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Of the current leaders, I'm pulling for Science....
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Science. Science is so multifaceted that there's sure to be something of interest to anyone who has so much as a thimbleful of curiosity as to why things are and how they work. Today's example: An interesting Reuters article currently on the New Scientist website: "
Deep Carbon Observatory Spotlights 'Zombie' Microbes Far Below Earth's Surface."
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A lack of food in what the 700-page report called the "Stygian realm" - after the River Styx of the underworld in Greek mythology - meant some microbes might be "zombies", or so slow-living as to seem dead.
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It's very possible that there's a deep microbial biosphere that goes down more than 10 km (6 miles), maybe 20.
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Have we already met the Martians, and are they us?
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... the ability of microbes to survive almost indefinitely in rocks on Earth also raises the possibility that rocks from Mars, which had liquid water before Earth, could have seeded our planet with life.
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