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Shuvodip Ray
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YouTube • 7m

More than 2 miles below the Earth's surface, ATOMIC-POWERED BACTERIA thrive in water that last fell as rain 5 million years ago. Their existence greatly increases the chance of finding life on other planets. Let's meet Desulforudis audaxviator, the lonely microbe at the 'center of the Earth'.

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Havish Gupta

Stealth • 7m

Check this meme

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Nawal
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SELF • 7m

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

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Anonymous 4

Stealth • 7m

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

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Anonymous 3
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slice • 7m

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.

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Anonymous 2

Stealth • 7m

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.

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Anonymous 1

Stealth • 7m

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.

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