Life on Mercury?

"Joseph Trollkin" wrote in message
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Think about it for a minute. Gigantic flame monstrosities that breathe
sulfuric gases. Not improbable.


Umm, what gasses?

"Sander Vesik" wrote in message
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Even better - giantic flame monsters who don't breath sulfuric gasses 8-P

I think there's a small shot at bacterial life there. There are terrestrial
bacteria that could live underground on Mercury - and they could have been
transported there via impacts.

-Dave Boll
http://www.frii.com/~davejen/

Sander Vesik wrote in message ...
Dave Boll wrote:

"Sander Vesik" wrote in message
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Even better - giantic flame monsters who don't breath sulfuric gasses 8-P

I think there's a small shot at bacterial life there. There are terrestrial
bacteria that could live underground on Mercury - and they could have been
transported there via impacts.


The problem part is water. All life I am aware of needs it. Some spores might
be able to survive, given the exactly right things happen includes impact
location) but i find it hard to see them multiply...

-Dave Boll
http://www.frii.com/~davejen/


Life on Mercery might be testy but, it's not impossible if there's
applied technology and the resources to power it. Lacking a
magnetosphere and damn little atmosphere isn't doing all that much for
cutting down solar/cosmic radiation, so like Mars, evolved life might
need to have become radiation tolerant as well as living the
night-life if you know what I mean.

Whereas sustaining life as we know it on Venus is still going to be
somewhat testy, although there's unlimited natural resources of energy
(green no less) and, there's mega tonnes of H2O just sitting in them
there cool nighttime clouds.

Evolved life could certainly have manage on far lesser H2O as well as
less O2.
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/positive.htm
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/venus-air.htm
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lizard-folk.htm
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/energy-options.htm
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/venus-nocturnals.htm

I have other more specific pages, although these ott to suffice.

Regards, Brad Guth / IEIS http://guthvenus.tripod.com

Sander Vesik wrote in message ...


The problem part is water. All life I am aware of needs it. Some spores might
be able to survive, given the exactly right things happen includes impact
location) but i find it hard to see them multiply...


Don't we have decent evidence for ice at the poles (in a
permanently-shadowed crater)? If it is freezing there, and way hot on
the current sun-facing side, I would think someplace underground
inbetween is in the temperature range for liquid water.

Rosetta Stone wrote:
Sander Vesik wrote in message ...


The problem part is water. All life I am aware of needs it. Some spores might
be able to survive, given the exactly right things happen includes impact
location) but i find it hard to see them multiply...


Don't we have decent evidence for ice at the poles (in a
permanently-shadowed crater)? If it is freezing there, and way hot on
the current sun-facing side, I would think someplace underground
inbetween is in the temperature range for liquid water.

If there is a way to get water to exist in the twilight zone then it is
poossible there is life that was carried there by impacts. But - I
haven't read anything about mercury in ages, so I have no idea if there
is ice or not

--
Sander

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