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A single-celled organism that can live on material from a meteorite

52 points by gebt 7y ago

dilippkumar 7y ago
“Scientists fed Metallosphaera sedula (an archaea) a meteorite (An H5 ordinary chondrite). It thrived” M Sedula: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallosphaera_sedula https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallosphaera_sedula Chondrite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrite https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrite Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-54482-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-54482-7
codeulike 7y ago
That headline is stretching so hard it might injure itaelf
- mirimir 7y ago
  I hate science writing like this. Seriously, people don't need baby talk.
  - onion2k 7y ago
    It's not baby talk. It's a metaphor. They're quite popular among people who write for a wide audience.
    - mirimir 7y ago
      Bacteria don't dance. They just don't. Twitch, maybe. But dance? No way.
- wayoutthere 7y ago
  It’s Vice — it’s more of a culture outlet so most of their reporting is clickbaity — but the science stuff is particularly bad.
- kemonocode 7y ago
  "Dancing" may be an exaggeration considering that just looks like Brownian motion to me. Heck, if you told me that was an inert slide, I'd have believed it.
twic 7y ago
Space metal? Like, Gloryhammer? To be fair, i'd probably start dancing too.
azeirah 7y ago
The article is vague about the significance of the bacteria being able to thrive on the meteorites. Are these metals rare on Earth? Was it unexpected that the bacteria could survive on the meteorite?
- derekp7 7y ago
  It supports the possibility of panspermia.
coldcode 7y ago
That page is choked by so many ads so I went to Safari Reader view - and saw a completely different article. Reading on the web is so irritating these days.
- inportb 7y ago
  Same with reader view in Firefox. You get the contents of the next related article, "Scientists Found a Planet Orbiting a Dead Star, a Glimpse Into Our Future." If you refreshed while in reader view, you could see the original article in reader view.

52 points by gebt 7y ago

“Scientists fed Metallosphaera sedula (an archaea) a meteorite (An H5 ordinary chondrite). It thrived” M Sedula: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallosphaera_sedula https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallosphaera_sedula Chondrite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrite https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrite Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-54482-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-54482-7

codeulike 7y ago

That headline is stretching so hard it might injure itaelf

mirimir 7y ago
I hate science writing like this. Seriously, people don't need baby talk.
- onion2k 7y ago
  It's not baby talk. It's a metaphor. They're quite popular among people who write for a wide audience.
  - mirimir 7y ago
    Bacteria don't dance. They just don't. Twitch, maybe. But dance? No way.
wayoutthere 7y ago
It’s Vice — it’s more of a culture outlet so most of their reporting is clickbaity — but the science stuff is particularly bad.
kemonocode 7y ago
"Dancing" may be an exaggeration considering that just looks like Brownian motion to me. Heck, if you told me that was an inert slide, I'd have believed it.

twic 7y ago

Space metal? Like, Gloryhammer? To be fair, i'd probably start dancing too.

azeirah 7y ago

The article is vague about the significance of the bacteria being able to thrive on the meteorites. Are these metals rare on Earth? Was it unexpected that the bacteria could survive on the meteorite?

derekp7 7y ago
It supports the possibility of panspermia.

coldcode 7y ago

That page is choked by so many ads so I went to Safari Reader view - and saw a completely different article. Reading on the web is so irritating these days.

inportb 7y ago
Same with reader view in Firefox. You get the contents of the next related article, "Scientists Found a Planet Orbiting a Dead Star, a Glimpse Into Our Future." If you refreshed while in reader view, you could see the original article in reader view.