nusratt's Journal: Iceland discovery promotes Martian life hypotheses

[story submitted to slashdot editors 2004-07-22 20:35 UTC and AGAIN 2004-07-24 07:55 UTC] This nature.com article reports research presented at the Bioastronomy 2004 conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. 'Scientists have discovered a community of bacteria living in the lake beneath an Icelandic glacier. The chilly world provides a model of Martian terrain and may boost speculation about the red planet's potential inhabitants. This is the first unequivocal example of life in a subglacial lake. The bacteria were definitely not introduced from above'.