There’s 10⁹ living cells in a gram of surface soil, and in 20 km depth that reduces to 10⁶ cells per gram, but they’re still alive and actively metabolizing down there! eating rock, mmhm tasty rock oh yeah! :p
they have cell turnover rates of hundreds of years though, so they age very slowly and multiply very slowly due to energy shortage.
There’s 10⁹ living cells in a gram of surface soil, and in 20 km depth that reduces to 10⁶ cells per gram, but they’re still alive and actively metabolizing down there! eating rock, mmhm tasty rock oh yeah! :p
they have cell turnover rates of hundreds of years though, so they age very slowly and multiply very slowly due to energy shortage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_biosphere
Life uhh… find a way.
I wonder if they ever check samples from like meteors, asteroids or moon rocks for evidence of that kind of organism.
Yes, it’s done often.
Thank you for posting that, i had no idea