On 16/02/2008, at 9:52 AM, Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > "One thing we've learned in recent years," notes > Hoover, "is that you don't have to have a 'Goldilocks' > zone with perfect temperature, a certain pH level, and > so forth, for life to thrive." Researchers have found > microbes living in ice, in boiling water, in nuclear > reactors. These "strange" extremophiles may in fact be > the norm for life elsewhere in the cosmos..."
Indeed, these "extremophiles" may be part of the route from chemistry - > complex self-sustaining reactions (hypercycles) -> chemical cells - > recognisable life -> biomes and ecosystems. Charlie. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
