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- MrDNA, on 06/22/2009, -0/+9FTA:
"This gallery highlights a few particularly tough species of bacteria and archaea, a lesser-appreciated but equally-vast branch of the organismal tree. Until the late 1970s, archaea was lumped in with bacteria, which are far more complicated and contain, among other things, a cell nucleus"
Ouch. Could we get a science editor in here? - norman619, on 06/22/2009, -0/+6they forgot to mention the metal eating bacteria which was living on the outer skin of the MIR space station.
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -0/+6"It’s simply become clear that life can exist almost anywhere on Earth."
Why on Earth? Wouldn't it be acceptable to think that many planets have environments that would look just like the "worse place to live on Earth"? Shouldn't it become clear that life can exist almost anywhere in the Universe? - wrathchilde, on 06/22/2009, -0/+3Well, actually no.
Bacteria are not related to archaea. They are, in fact, radically different. The metabolic pathways are nothing alike. Animals are much more closely related to plants than are bacteria to archaea.
http://trishul.sci.gu.edu.au/~bharat/courses/ss13b ... - glaz, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1Because the joke is 6000 years old, or more.
- diggforworld, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1Because everyone's not human being.
- brizzad2, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1Maltian
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/one-orga ... - TVarmy, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1Those are elephants. Imagine all the fun you'd have with a trunk, and yet somehow evolution decided that humans don't need trunks.
- InfectedTuna, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1I don't know why your getting buried. I agree and laughed.
- 2noame, on 06/23/2009, -0/+1Exactly.
- neillawson, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1More like bastard cousins with really awesome toys that you can't play with.
- geoman2k, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1this life is EEEXXXXXXTTTREEEEMMMEE!!!!!
- jrm125, on 06/22/2009, -0/+1R.I.P. Ron Davies
- Kyrgizion, on 06/22/2009, -1/+1Archaea are basically the paleontologic ancestors of bacteria, I guess.
- ProfessorSexy, on 06/22/2009, -0/+0oh what a surprise.
- neillawson, on 06/22/2009, -1/+1In my bum?
- inactive, on 06/22/2009, -1/+1Can I get a witness, to my fitness?
- whatup732, on 06/22/2009, -4/+3Buried for inaccuracy. Article claims 3 billion years of evolution. We all know the earth is only 6000 years old.
- InfectedTuna, on 06/22/2009, -1/+0Buried for multiple pages. I tried to drift away from Obama crap and the gaming section and actually read stuff that might matter somehow, but its tuff to be interested in bacteria when its on like 12 f'ing pages!
- InfectedTuna, on 06/22/2009, -2/+0Church henchmen/goons are coming to get your a**! Say by to the family that you have dishonored ....
- alex7575, on 06/22/2009, -4/+1I've been living in Los Angeles for 15 yrs now, I can relate to those organisms...
- YouAreDead, on 06/22/2009, -6/+2***** the riaa
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