[extropy-chat] ET is a Bacterium was Dark Matter and ET.

[The Avantguardian]

--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The beast you are describing is an ultra
> extremophile that
> would use catalytic elements like tungsten and other
> high temperature
> elements in its protiens and today would be
> generally inert at normal
> temps and pressures.
> 
> Such creatures already exist in the Archaea and
> thrive throughout the
> earth's crust.

Point well taken. But it is still entrely possible
that the common ancestor of both Eubacteria and
Archaea came from outer space. The fact that Archaea
are such extremophiles make it likely they could exist
on other planets and not just the "garden" variety,
but in the crust of Io for example or under the frozen
oceans of Europa. They are fascinating little buggers
though. Eating iron, beathing sulfur . . . as alien as
you get without leaving Terra.

The Avantguardian 
is 
Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

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-Bill Watterson

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