strong enougo dissolvemetal. A species called Micrococcus radiope tanksof nuclear reactors, gorging itself on plutonium and eriabreak do at all.

    ts and lakes of caustic soda, deep insiderocks, at ttom of ter in tarctica, and seven miles doimes greater t t to being squasyjumbo jets. Some of to be practically indestructible. Deinococcus radiodurans is,according to t , “almost immune to radioactivity.” Blast its DNA ion,and tely reform “like ttling limbs of an undead creature from ahorror movie.”

    Per extraordinary survival yet found  of a Streptococcus bacteriumt  ood on two years.

    In s, ts in  prepared to live. “t s so  t tually startto melt, teria even toria Bennett told me.

    In tists at ty of Cin and Frank Greer,announced t ted from oil rains of bacteria t dept. tion ally preposterous—to live on at t—and for fifty years it  taminated  t ofmicrobes living deep  all to do  rocks or, ratuff t’s in rocks—iron, sulfur, manganese,and so on. And too—iron, c, even uranium. Sucrumental in concentrating gold, copper, and otals, andpossibly deposits of oil and natural gas. It ed t tireless nibblingscreated t.

    Some scientists no trillion tons of bacteria livingbeneat in otropems—SLiME for s. timated t if you took all teria out ofterior and dumped it on t  to a dept. If timates are correct, top of it.

    At deptremely sluggis of tury, some no more than perhaps once in five hundred years.

    As t  it: “to long life, it seems, is not to do too muco