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Etznab
Aug 1, 2020, 1:28:51 PM8/1/20
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They can live in the most inhospitable environments, including radiation planetary and interstellar. And evidently they (aerobic bacteria, at least) can also live a long time in the presence of very little oxygen.
"Microbes buried beneath the sea floor for more than 100 million years are still alive, a new study reveals. [... .]"
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/scientists-pull-living-microbes-100-million-years-beneath-sea
So in the news last week were a number of reports about trips to Mars by various countries. I think the U.S. just launched something that will for the first time try to get rocks and bring them back to Earth. And they mentioned that Mars was inhabitable long, long ago but they stopped short of saying there was life there. O.K. So if bacteria can survive in so many places then why not on Mars?
Also in the news was a report about U.S. UFO department believed defunct that turned out to really still be active (just the name was changed) and maybe some forthcoming release of information by the government.
How long will it be then before universal consensus and proof positive evidence of life throughout the solar system? No telling what Trump will make public before he leaves office. Especially if they piss him off enough and the other side tries to (again) cheat, or sabotages the election. (I know, they both do it.)
In any case, the biology discussions on radio last week were very interesting; what little I got to hear. However, I love it when evidence turns up to make people scratch their heads trying to figure out why they were so dumbd for so long. Why they could not see the obvious.
IMO though the U.S. government considered it a threat to national security to tell the truth about life in outer space. Like with Eckankar though, there comes a time when the coverup becomes uncovered up and so they have to say something or risk looking highly suspicious. I think that time is coming for life on other planets. To hell with the pseudo history and religion that don't make sense in light of the simple truth. They will have to find a way to cope. And so will all the fundamentalist believers who's lives become turned upside down when simple truth and provable fact reveals how ignorant they were for so long. They will have to find a way to rationalize the ignorance. Maybe it will sound something like: "Well everybody believed and everybody told me that blah, blah, blah. I didn't have any reason not to trust them. Not when even the authorities, the teachers and the masters were saying the same ignorant things; probably because they didn't know any better either. Or because they imbibed too much pseudo history in school."
"Microbes buried beneath the sea floor for more than 100 million years are still alive, a new study reveals. [... .]"
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/scientists-pull-living-microbes-100-million-years-beneath-sea
So in the news last week were a number of reports about trips to Mars by various countries. I think the U.S. just launched something that will for the first time try to get rocks and bring them back to Earth. And they mentioned that Mars was inhabitable long, long ago but they stopped short of saying there was life there. O.K. So if bacteria can survive in so many places then why not on Mars?
Also in the news was a report about U.S. UFO department believed defunct that turned out to really still be active (just the name was changed) and maybe some forthcoming release of information by the government.
How long will it be then before universal consensus and proof positive evidence of life throughout the solar system? No telling what Trump will make public before he leaves office. Especially if they piss him off enough and the other side tries to (again) cheat, or sabotages the election. (I know, they both do it.)
In any case, the biology discussions on radio last week were very interesting; what little I got to hear. However, I love it when evidence turns up to make people scratch their heads trying to figure out why they were so dumbd for so long. Why they could not see the obvious.
IMO though the U.S. government considered it a threat to national security to tell the truth about life in outer space. Like with Eckankar though, there comes a time when the coverup becomes uncovered up and so they have to say something or risk looking highly suspicious. I think that time is coming for life on other planets. To hell with the pseudo history and religion that don't make sense in light of the simple truth. They will have to find a way to cope. And so will all the fundamentalist believers who's lives become turned upside down when simple truth and provable fact reveals how ignorant they were for so long. They will have to find a way to rationalize the ignorance. Maybe it will sound something like: "Well everybody believed and everybody told me that blah, blah, blah. I didn't have any reason not to trust them. Not when even the authorities, the teachers and the masters were saying the same ignorant things; probably because they didn't know any better either. Or because they imbibed too much pseudo history in school."
Etznab
Aug 1, 2020, 1:31:55 PM8/1/20
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"[...] What’s more, by showing that life can survive in places biologists once thought uninhabitable, the research speaks to the possibility of life elsewhere in the Solar System, or elsewhere in the universe. [... .]"
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/scientists-pull-living-microbes-100-million-years-beneath-sea
I get the idea somebody knows that information is coming out soon regardless and this is part of the preparation. getting people ready for the idea that Earth is far from being the origin of life in the Universe; Adam and Eve (not Steve) and all.
Etznab
Aug 1, 2020, 1:38:00 PM8/1/20
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"[...] But there’s so little food in the deep-sea sediments that any microbes there could most likely do little more than repair any damaged molecules. “If they are not dividing at all, they are living for 100 million years, but that seems insane,” says Steve D’Hondt, an oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island, Bay Campus, and co-author of the study. He wonders whether there’s another unrecognized source of energy—perhaps radioactivity—down there that allows slow division by the bacteria, which likely got trapped in these sediments as they were buried by other settling sediments.
"But the bottom line, says Bo Barker Jørgensen, a marine microbiologist at Aarhus University who was not involved with the work, is “low food and energy seem not to set the ultimate limit for life on Earth.”
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/scientists-pull-living-microbes-100-million-years-beneath-sea
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