The Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth… And Beyond?
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[PBS Bumper]On April 15th, 1912, an “Unsinkable ship” named the Titanic hit an iceberg and cameto rest nearly 4 kilometers beneath the surface.Light?None.The temperature?Two degrees Celsius.Pressures?5000 pounds per square inch.But more than 100 years later, this watery graveyard is somehow teeming with life.Those strange icicle shapes covering the Titanic are full of microscopic organisms that thrivein one of Earth’s most inhospitable environments.They can literally *eat metal* and someday soon, they’ll leave nothing but a rustypile of powder where the ship once was.These deep-sea microbes are extremophiles, one of countless organisms living hidden inEarth’s most extreme habitats, adapted to conditions where, until recently, we figuredlife couldn’t exist.Extremo...
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[PBS Bumper]On April 15th, 1912, an “Unsinkable ship” named the Titanic hit an iceberg and cameto rest nearly 4 kilometers beneath the surface.Light?None.The temperature?Two degrees Celsius.Pressures?5000 pounds per square inch.But more than 100 years later, this watery graveyard is somehow teeming with life.Those strange icicle shapes covering the Titanic are full of microscopic organisms that thrivein one of Earth’s most inhospitable environments.They can literally *eat metal* and someday soon, they’ll leave nothing but a rustypile of powder where the ship once was.These deep-sea microbes are extremophiles, one of countless organisms living hidden inEarth’s most extreme habitats, adapted to conditions where, until recently, we figuredlife couldn’t exist.Extremo...
