An extremophile (from Latin extremus meaning "extreme" and Greek philiā (φιλία) meaning "love") is an organism that thrives in physically or geochemically extreme conditions that are detrimental to most life on Earth. In contrast, organisms that live in more moderate environments may be termed mesophiles or neutrophiles.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, biologists found that microbial life has an amazing flexibility for surviving in extreme environments — niches that are extraordinarily hot, or acidic, for example — that would be completely inhospitable to complex organisms. Some scientists even concluded that life may have begun on Earth in hydrothermal vents far under the ocean's surface. According to astrophysicist Dr. Steinn Sigurdsson, "There are viable bacterial spores that have been found that are 40 million years old on Earth — and we know they're very hardened to radiation." On 6 February 2013, scientists reported that bacteria were found living in the cold and dark in a lake buried a half-mile deep under the ice in Antarctica. On 17 March 2013, researchers reported data that suggested microbial life forms thrive in the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot on the Earth. Other researchers reported related studies that microbes thrive inside rocks up to 1900 feet below the sea floor under 8500 feet of ocean off the coast of the northwestern United States. According to one of the researchers,"You can find microbes everywhere — they're extremely adaptable to conditions, and survive wherever they are."
Take off　Dive 2 be free Turn off shu ni soma re Play Back nashi no Show wa kasoku woma shite ku Wake up at real world Pay off onore no tede Bad trip hito kiki no warui , Like a Joke stop Lets fall !! Dont be afraid. Kuchi rukotode sukuwa reru inochi gaaru nara Semaru chijou ga fusagu shikai by the way ttemou just hassha no jikan sa Kurutta nowa ore dakeja nee koto wa tashika Be obscene at last dance Hakujou ni nari toma nu koe no arika nage dashi ta inochi kachi haikura ? Extreme Falling Down chippokede warae nai sekai no owari Revolving Lantern Bright ochi teku nosa I turned pale with fear. OK Slice my Life. 　Bastard !! Theater of DA absurd wo mae no ashita ja rishi nimo todoka nee Haha
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20 Dec 2024
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20 Dec 2024