http://www.altnation.com/forums/newt...ewthread&f=463 Quote:
It's the basement apartment like no other. Life has been found 1.6 kilometres beneath the sea floor, at temperatures reaching 100 °C.
The discovery marks the deepest living cells ever to be found beneath the sea floor. Bacteria have been found deeper underneath the continents, but there they are rare. In comparison, the rocks beneath the sea appear to be teaming with life.
John Parkes, a geobiologist at the University of Cardiff, UK, hopes his team's discovery might one day help find life on other planets. He says it might even redefine what we understand as life, and, bizarrely, what we understand by "age".
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All very interesting stuff in a vaugely Fortean conspiracy esque way (except obviously it isn't a conspiracy just the current paradigm or recieved knowledge) I was wondering if this has any implications for the theories of Thomas Gold.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/gold_pr.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gold Quote:
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Gold achieved fame for his 1992 paper "The Deep Hot Biosphere" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,[1] which presented a controversial view of the origin of coal, oil, and gas deposits, a theory of an abiogenic petroleum origin
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Abiogenic petroleum origin whats that you say?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin Quote:
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The theory of abiogenic petroleum origin holds that natural petroleum was formed from deep carbon deposits, perhaps dating to the formation of the Earth. The ubiquity of hydrocarbons in the solar system is taken as evidence that there may be a great deal more petroleum on Earth than commonly thought, and that petroleum may originate from carbon-bearing fluids which migrate upward from the mantle.
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This is one of my favourite little 'minority' disputes in science and one I'd really like to be true - even though if it were true it could have pretty dire enviromental consequences regarding oil consumption...
