Life in Antarctica -- new and old

[tharpdevenport]

A few days ago I caught a news blurd about micro organisms living in the ice deep below the surface of Antarctica. Scientists have found those, one that live in boiling hot water in ocean vents, and in toxic waters. It seems life can live anywhere on Earth. Makes you wonder what might be in Titan...

Whiel trying to find the article in question, I also found this interesting article:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14082-predinosaur-era-burrow-discovered-in-antarctica.html

 

[FordSVT]

Yeah, some of the moons of Saturn and Jupiter are the next best place to look for life after Mars. Hell, a couple of them are likely better candidates, they're just so inaccessible compared to Mars.

It would be amazing to drill a few miles under the ice of some distant moon and find life...

 

[USS KG5]

Hopefully sometime in the next century we will find some extra-terrestrial life, be nice if it happened in my lifetime.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I read a day or two ago that they've discovered some kind of bacteria (or something like that) which feeds on arsenic. Anyone else read that?

 

[romulus]

Even if they don't have life I say we try to seed those planets with some of those extremophiles. Later if someone wants to try it we can try to terraform Mars and some of those moons.

I suppose if any Earth life could take hold on those planets/moons they would eventually make them better for other life on their own but that might take billions of years.

Or stick to the cool domes of old school sci-fi.