Viva la life everywhere! Except the idiots I mentioned above.

See you around! Cheers, Ian

I definately agree with Ian on this one. The ranters who mingled in the assorted comments above didn't bother to come up with meaningful counterpoints…but rather reactionary invective. This seems to be the signs of our times. Particularly, western culture has become so polarized in its thinking that we are losing the ability to have a meaningful discussion (not to mention friendship) with people that we disagree with. How unfortunate.

Back to the article. The question that I raise is this a matter of "top down" evolution? What I mean is, the earth's surface is generally teeming with life. Did surface life make its way down to the depths and learn to adapt or did it develop independently in the environment? I ask this because that may have implications for finding life on Mars. If the surface of Mars never had a chance to develop life, would that not make it less likely to find life below the surface? Just wondering. Any comments, y'all?

There is no excuse that can be made to destroy life so we can dump our waste.

I'm sorry for those who think this posting was "opportunistic", after all we can't go mentioning the "life" topic so soon after the landing of a Mars mission (that cannot search for life anyway). The heading CLEARLY states "Life Found a Mile Below Terrestrial Seabed; Implications For Life on Mars". How else would you have me write it?

And geokster, sorry to be losing you, but judging by your comment, you read what you want into our articles anyway! I'll tell you what, take a deep breath, calm down, and read the last paragraph again. If you feel the same, you obviously don't know what I'm talking about. In short, finding life this deep means that if we pump CO2 into the ground, it could wipe out this type of microbe. To be honest, at this stage, we do not know the importance of prokaryotes in the wider ecosystem, or food chain. I was simply stating, that if the current plans to dispose of carbon in this way go ahead, prokaryote damage could be irreversible.

Thank you Jozef K, astrojog, Astrofiend and Steve, looks like you guys read the article. Thank you for the support

Cheers! Ian

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Wow; passionate, aren't we geokster? Storming off chucking a little tanty like most of your type do when the tide of scientific opinion is against you. You aren't an 'intelligent design' proponent too by any chance, are you? I just mention it because it seems that the same childish behaviour that you demonstrate in your rant seems to be a trait that is quite similar to that commonly observed in the ID mafia. Boo hoo.

This article made the barest mention of climate change, and did so in a manner that was relevant to the main story at hand. It didn't even promote the concept for goodness sake. It simply stated that carbon sequestration could affect habitats that were previously unknown. If anything, that provides an argument against the process, which should make you happy seeing as climate change is all a load of rubbish anyway – right?

F-M-D; the people that write these articles keep doing so for God-knows-what-reason. Half of what they write is lambasted by morons with an axe to grind, and yet they continue to churn out quality stories anyway which we should all be grateful for. So if you don't want to read it – don't. If you disagree with something, come up with a thoughtful post or argument defending your position, or keep it to yourself.

You say that you won't be coming here again, but you'll probably be back. And we'll all have the displeasure of reading your mind-numbing posts and knowing that we just got a bit dumber for the effort.

Although some may interpret this article as "eco biased", there are some interesting implications regarding life found at certain depths of the Earth's crust to CO2 sequestration. Here is a link to a professor out in Arizona that discusses:

http://www.hwr.arizona.edu/mcintosh/Site/Home.html

Nonetheless, this discovery brings to the forefront the various possibilities of finding life, and under what conditions.

Really? Ian is reporting on a news relating to how life found in the earth in harsh conditions raises hopes of possible life on Mars and how it possibly threats untouched ecosystems.

I don't recall reading anything about killing off humanity…

Good work Ian! Keep up the cool news!!!

Somehow this discovery of the hardiness of life was turned into another propaganda screed for global warming advocates and radical envirofreaks. According to the apocalyptics, there is apparently nothing we can do now to prevent Earth from turning into Venus short of eliminating 99% of the human population and turning the rest into a strictly organic agrarian society, is there?

That is, except for the elites like Algore, who will lead us into the Promised Land in his ethanol Hummer, along with his acolytes, like the ones who rule here.

This site used to be one of my favorite daily stops. No longer.

There are plenty of other top-notch sites where all the same scientific discoveries are found, without the political correctness. I'm voting with my keyboard and deleting this one from my favorites.

Go ahead and preach to your choir.

If they find life on Mars, then we should all celebrate, Until then all the speculation "don't really mean a thing in this crazy world…"

(NOTE: More interested at the moment with the Cisco "live" hologram stories on telepresence – just like Princess Leia in the beginning scenes of Star Wars : A New Hope… Ie. "Help me Obi-Won Konobi. Your Our Only Hope." Finding Life on Mars might be wonderful to discover, but having realistic holographic images projected on the internet in the next 5 years will change communications and entertainment between people throughout the entire world. The applications will make this technology as important as the telephone, the computer or even penicillin . Maybe the first person on Mars, might even be a projected hologram!)