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Completely agree. Even in a desert, life is easy to spot in ecological hotspots.

• ceejayoz 6y ago
  We find extremophiles eating rock in mile-deep mines. Not necessarily easy to spot.
  • SideburnsOfDoom 6y ago
    > Not necessarily easy to spot. I think the deep extremophiles underscore the point that "if there's life, it spreads everywhere". Which is in aggregate easy to spot.
    • ceejayoz 6y ago
      The contrasting point, though, is that a now-inhospitable surface may not mean an inhospitable interior.
      • SideburnsOfDoom 6y ago
        As a remnant, yes.
    • austinjp 6y ago
      Or the corollary: life invades whichever crevices it can, and clings on as long as possible.