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by rishav_sharan 2163 days ago
Yep. misspelled it.

ph is a logarithmic scale so the difference between ph ~0 and ph 3 is of 3 orders of magnitude (or something like that. My maths is rubbish...). it can dissolve noble metals so I doubt anything living can survive it. But once diluted, some extremophiles may be live off it. while googling found this interesting article

https://onezero.medium.com/a-new-zealand-startup-is-using-mi...

so yeah, the challenge is halfway broken. science is amazing. :D