[ExI] Earth's deep crust could support widespread life

[Tomaz Kristan]

We see this conquering of the (difficult) niches AFTER an evolution
pressure has been put on some softer creatures.  Only after a lot of
hospital cleaning has been done, we have a lot of bacteria flourishing
there. After a lot of antibiotics used, we have some penicillin resistant
germs. After a lot of pesticides used, some poison resistant bugs arrived.

Perhaps you can put a scorpion on the Moon, see it crawling for at least
some time. Cockroaches along with some resilient plant can perhaps survive
Mars conditions for an indefinitely long time. But not without the Earth
which nourished them first.

First you have to have a nicer environment for life to begin and especially
to develop, I am quite sure.

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Tomaz Kristan <protokol2020 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > life developed at hydrothermal vents THEN spread underground?
>
> Because the life around those vents breaths the oxygen produced by the
> green plants!
>
> Because those fish and crabs, worms even, adapted there AFTER a long line
> of ancestors away of those vents.
>
> Why not rather assume that life evolved in a more life friendly
> environment and then conquered the deep, the high, the cold and the hot
> places. Usually on the expense of its complexity?
>
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> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Why are they sticking with the idea that life developed at hydrothermal
>> vents THEN spread underground? Wouldn't the opposite direction make even
>> more sense? There is so much more rock down there than space around vents.
>> Also, many of the clay models for abiogenesis would work better down there.
>> I don't know why scientists get stuck on ideas that aren't proven. Or maybe
>> it's just science writers...
>>
>> -Kelly
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Dan <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.nature.com/news/earth-s-deep-crust-could-support-widespread-life-1.16575
>>>
>>> Okay, not as surprising as one might hope, but confirms a bit of what we
>>> already thought, no?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
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