[HN Gopher] Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Ins... ___________________________________________________________________ Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds Author : theafh Score : 78 points Date : 2021-05-24 15:52 UTC (7 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.quantamagazine.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.quantamagazine.org) | ISL wrote: | I was lucky as an undergrad to attend a small lecture by Tommy | Gold [1] near the end of his life, where he advocated the ideas | described in his book Deep Hot Biosphere. He was often ahead of | his time and unafraid to take controversial positions to get | there (including the now-accepted, but once derided, phenomenon | that we know today as the pulsar). | | You might be right again, Tommy. | | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gold | hn8788 wrote: | Sort of off topic, but I wonder if that idea was part of the | inspiration for the origin story of Godzilla, or if it's just a | coincidence. | zzzbra wrote: | to think that some people called the new godzilla movies dumb... | gus_massa wrote: | The idea is that the radioactivity produces Hydrogen and | Sulfate, and some bacteria (or achaea?) can "burn" the Hydrogen | extracting an Oxygen from the Sulfate. So no Godzilla down | there. | eloff wrote: | Unless there are little animals eating the bacteria, and | bigger animals eating them, etc. | | I mean it's preposterous, but not impossible if for some | reason the rock was porous enough. Maybe inside a small moon | or asteroid. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-05-24 23:00 UTC)