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Check this meme

I'm sure , now we'll be shifting to some aliens talk

The name Desulforudis audaxviator is brilliant too - "the bold traveler that removes sulphur" capturing its pioneering spirit in colonizing the deep

It's wild that until this discovery, we assumed all life requires energy sources linked to the sun and photosynthesis one way or another. Shows how little we truly know about the boundaries of what life can do.

If bacteria can survive just on energy from radiation and water isolated for millions of years, it raises the probability of finding similar lifeforms on other planetary bodies without sunlight. Implications for astrobiology are huge.

This is such a mind-blowing discovery! The fact that life can exist in these seemingly inhospitable deep subsurface conditions utterly changes our understanding of what's possible.