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Meet the Magnificent Microbes of the Deep Unknown

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The Different Types of Life in Earth's Crust

Life in Earth's crust is supported instead by energy coming from chemical reactions. The two really big things are that they are independent of the time scales that we have up at the surface, which creates for some crazy long lived things. And the other thing is that they are very diverse in what they can breathe. They can use palladium and copper and nickel and antimony and vanadium and selenium - all these things are SNCC. That's something that's very toxic to us, but for them it's like oxygen.

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