Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust 335
michaelmarshall writes "For the first time, life has been found in the gabbroic layer of the crust. The new biosphere is all bacteria, as you might expect, but they are different from the bacteria in the layers above; they mostly feed on hydrocarbons that are produced by abiotic reactions deep in the crust. It could mean that similar microbes are living even deeper, perhaps even in the mantle."
Re:Living under surface (Score:5, Funny)
Just proving the rule.... (Score:3, Funny)
have they named it yet? (Score:5, Funny)
if not, it should be Bacillus Balrogus
"The humans dug too greedily and deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of the Chilean copper mine... shadow and flame... and Bacillus Balrogus!"
Re:Ergo oil (Score:3, Funny)
That doesn't do anything about global warming, though.
Re:Living under surface (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Just proving the rule.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:pervasive (Score:2, Funny)
That sounds like a challange to me.
Re:Ergo oil (Score:2, Funny)
Wait a minute, these bacteria are feeding on hydrocarbons... they're not producing oil, they're eating it. Oil that rightfully belongs to us (and by us, I mean oil companies of course). Those bastards! I say we nuke them all. (The oil companies I mean, not the bacteria.)
Re:pervasive (Score:2, Funny)
But did they find... (Score:1, Funny)
Menzoberranzan?
Of course not, because if they had, they'd never come back.
Re:Living under surface (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Living under surface (Score:4, Funny)
But if you dig too deep, you will release the clowns. Nothing says oops like busting through an adamantine cavern and finding yourself facing a spirit of fire.
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General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
Re:Ergo oil (Score:3, Funny)
Re:have they named it yet? (Score:3, Funny)
Glenn Beck?
Re:Living under surface (Score:1, Funny)
Plenty of us ./ers are living underground. It's called the basement.
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50 km under Kansas would still be Kansas.
Ah, such charming naiveté, such amusing nonsense.
50 km under Kansas would be Kansas, were it not actually Khan'saxz, empire of The Dusty Ancient One, who thankfully is content to rule the followers he crafted from nightmares given substance. Were you to dig down to those depths your life would surely be forfeit, if you were truly fortunate and did not instead lose your sanity and your soul.
Just sayin'. Don't dig under Kansas. Bad idea.