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Old 02-26-2015, 09:23 AM   #18
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Default Re: Space: Desert Planets

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Originally Posted by ericthered View Post
And yet a place on earth without bacteria -- all the literature I'm reading says they HAVE found life in the driest parts of the Atacama-- though they say it lives in rock pores, not the soil.
It's been a while, so I may have missed things or over-generalized what I read.
I thought that even the chemistry of the soil was incompatible with common life from such long periods of dessication.
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