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Submission + - Life in Sulphuric Acid. The first Earthling?

Maikel_NAI writes: "A microorganism found by a group of scientist in a Russian area, is able to survive in sulphuric acid, feeding on some kind of pyrite. This fact suggest this creature has not evolve since the very first moments of life's appearance on Earth, and thus this could be the most ancient form of life in our planet. The paper, published in the last issue of the journal Nature, says that this microorganism, called Ferroplasma acidiphilum had arose at the begining of the Earth formation, more than 5 billion years ago."
It's funny.  Laugh.

Submission + - New Year's Resolutions for Coders

tkdtaylor writes: This is a great list specially this one:
"I will not respond to requests for help by informing the questioner that they are not only asking the wrong question, but should change the language they program in and/or their Linux distribution."

I immediately though of slash dot when I read that.

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