Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Microbes within the seafloor
Have you ever wondered if there are microbes living within sea floor? Well, researchers have found evidence that they are microbes living within the sea floors with a remarkable low metabolic rates. These microbes takes a little amount of oxygen that they barely qualify or made it to the category of being alive. As researchers have said, they may have lived for 86 million years with minimum energy requirement needed to stay alive.
Although these microbes have not been identified or yet unknown, it is quite intriguing to find these microbes within the sea floor. Knowing that these microbes are unknown, it could have the potential of being dangerous or the other way around. It may not affect us since we quite have a large distance between us humans and microbes on the seafloor. This new information do helps us know that they are microbes within the seafloor. As far as we know about microbes, they have existed within the air, the ground,most of the body parts of the human body, in general mostly everywhere.
Also, with in these areas, light doesn't penetrate that much to the sea floors in which cases, these microbes have live mostly without light. In these kind of environment, they may have changed their ways of living unlike any other microbes. They may have changed into having different characteristics or appearances within those area as well.
As questions comes in mind, should we treat these microbes as friends or foes? What if these microbes made contact within us, could they be dangerous or not? Could they evolve upon contact with a new environment where there is more oxygen and could have the potential of being deadly? Lot of questions needed to be answered, but as of now, no one knows.
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Hey Aldous, you chose a very intriguing article because so little is known about these mysterious microbes. I figured microbes would live on the sea floor because microbes have adapted to live almost everywhere in the world but the way these microbes live and have lived is marvelous. These microbes barely need any oxygen to survive because they do not use a lot of energy which is interesting because that is different from other microbes. Throughout the millions of years that these microbes have been on the earth they have adapted to be unique creatures of their own. I cannot believe that we have not studied these unidentified microbes just like Aldous said who knows if they could be dangerous or if they could be beneficial. I would love to hear if more information comes out on these little creatures because who knows what we would find out studying them.
ReplyDeleteWow, man, nice blog!
ReplyDeleteI think that it is really interesting that microbes live on the sea floor. I wonder how we found them, though. I would really like to find out what their purpose is, and why they are there. Wouldn't it be crazy if they could help cure some crazy disease like cancer?
As you said in your blog, they could also prove to be dangerous; it seems unlikely to me that they would be because they barely qualify as living creatures. I find it intriguing that these tiny little organisms have been alive for so long, but have gone completely undetected until recently.
Do you think that they are useful, or is there a higher probability that they aren't good for much?