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| ISL wrote:
| I was lucky as an undergrad to attend a small lecture by Tommy
| Gold [1] near the end of his life, where he advocated the ideas
| described in his book Deep Hot Biosphere. He was often ahead of
| his time and unafraid to take controversial positions to get
| there (including the now-accepted, but once derided, phenomenon
| that we know today as the pulsar).
|
| You might be right again, Tommy.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gold
| hn8788 wrote:
| Sort of off topic, but I wonder if that idea was part of the
| inspiration for the origin story of Godzilla, or if it's just a
| coincidence.
| zzzbra wrote:
| to think that some people called the new godzilla movies dumb...
| gus_massa wrote:
| The idea is that the radioactivity produces Hydrogen and
| Sulfate, and some bacteria (or achaea?) can "burn" the Hydrogen
| extracting an Oxygen from the Sulfate. So no Godzilla down
| there.
| eloff wrote:
| Unless there are little animals eating the bacteria, and
| bigger animals eating them, etc.
|
| I mean it's preposterous, but not impossible if for some
| reason the rock was porous enough. Maybe inside a small moon
| or asteroid.
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