ebinoka
Alfred, Ontario, Canada
 
 
In the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single-celled algae in Antarctic ice floes, and fungi in the cooling pools of nuclear reactors.

But might there be life stranger than the most extreme extremophile? Might there be, somewhere, another kind of life entirely? In fact, scientists have hypothesized life that uses ammonia instead of water, life based not in carbon but in silicon, life driven by nuclear chemistry, and life whose very atoms are unlike those in life we know. In recent years some scientists have begun to look for the tamer versions of such life on rock surfaces in the American Southwest, in a “shadow biosphere” that might impinge on the known biosphere, and even deep within human tissue. They have also hypothesized more radical versions that might survive in Martian permafrost, in the cold ethylene lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan, and in the hydrogen-rich atmospheres of giant planets in other solar systems. And they have imagined it in places off those worlds: the exotic ices in comets, the vast spaces between the stars, and—strangest of all—parallel universes.

Distilling complex science in clear and lively prose, David Toomey illuminates the research of the biological avant-garde and describes the workings of weird organisms in riveting detail. His chapters feature an unforgettable cast of brilliant scientists and cover everything from problems with our definitions of life to the possibility of intelligent weird life. With wit and understanding that will delight scientists and lay readers alike, Toomey reveals how our current knowledge of life forms may account for only a tiny fraction of what’s really out there.
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dozy 27 Nov, 2022 @ 2:45pm 
my mouth starts watering as i see his supple toes :ritu:
Autellaem 26 Nov, 2022 @ 6:03pm 
i slowly caress my small toe
Mister Buttle 26 Nov, 2022 @ 5:27pm 
hot papi, getting more babies, mmm
Dr Prostate 26 Nov, 2022 @ 5:26pm 
*romantically ♥♥♥♥♥ you hard* Hey kitten, I know weve been lacking in the sex department lately... but daddy is here to makei it up.. *Grabs ur bulge while looking you in the eyes, slowly inserting my penis into your penis. Wow, tight as usual ebinoka..... *I grab your balls and pull, kind of like the bop it game, i start playing with them.*
Mister Buttle 16 Nov, 2022 @ 10:01pm 
i'd stick my ♥♥♥♥ in his pp
Autellaem 15 Nov, 2022 @ 2:06pm 
sex is when ants go in your pp