"Al" wrote in message
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Speak for yourself. You have no idea what kind of terrestrial egosystem I
can inhabit. :-) I didn't mean to suggest we worry about them
contaminating our flasks. I just thought it would be amusing to anyone
preparing agar for flasking to contemplate that there is stuff on this
planet that would actually like to live in an autoclave. But you knew
that.
Of course. :-)

What I was wondering while I read the article, and what it didn't
mention, was how long the microbe would live in "our" environment.

Yes. it seems highly unlikely to me that it could survive in our
environment, but the scientist in me wants to yell at the author for
neglecting to include the obvious information. As a scientist, I'd want to
see the experimental results of tests to determine the lower bound on
temperatures in which it can survive. It may seem a little pedantic, but
sometimes living things surprise us.

Cheers,

Ted

Al
tongue in cheek, foot in mouth, head in clouds, nose in air, mind in
gutter
orchids in greenhouse

:-)