2008/09/19

Extremophile

After the land of the Phoenix in the Mars arctic, with the first results of the high salinity of the ground, I read some articles about the water is not the only one restriction to allow life.

In out planet we have places where the life exist under extreme conditions. This type of life we call it Extremophile. Working in a synchrotron I am curioused, specifically with the life that is able to be in extreme radiological conditions. I don't know how a bacteria can protect and repair what the radiation breaks, but what about the parasitoid wasp? Wikipedia says this complex life can support a hundred times more of radiation than the humans.

A few a go I read about the survivance in space conditions of the Tardigrade. It's impressive how this lifes can survive to the void with high radiation doses.

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