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November 21, 2012

Lifting The Ceiling On Terran Lifeforms
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 20, 2012
The parachuting thrill-seeker Felix Baumgartner is not the only living thing to plunge through the jet stream. Recent studies have confirmed that microbes exist in the stratosphere, the atmospheric region between about 18 and 50 kilometers in altitude. (Baumgartner leaped into history from 39 kilometers up.) Biologists had once thought this zone was uninhabitable due to its low pressure, high radiation and absence of water and nutrients. "Life surviving at high altitudes challenges our ... read more

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