From: hils@saynotospam.net   
      
   "A bizarre microbe found deep in a gold mine in South Africa could   
   provide a model for how life might survive in seemingly uninhabitable   
   environments through the cosmos. Known as Desulforudis audaxviator, the   
   rod-shaped bacterium thrives 2.8 kilometers underground in a habitat   
   devoid of the things that power the vast majority of life on   
   Earth—light, oxygen, and carbon. Instead, this “gold mine bug” gets   
   energy from radioactive uranium in the depths of the mine. Now,   
   scientists predict that life elsewhere in the universe might also feed   
   off of radiation, especially radiation raining down from space."   
      
   http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/alien-life-could-feed-cosmic-rays   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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