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by tim333
517 days ago
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The 1993 NYT article has >Assuming that three miles was the limit, and that only 1 percent of the total pore space available in the rocky crust was occupied by microbes, then the total mass of living material there would be about 200 trillion tons. If that material were spread over all the Earth's land surfaces, Dr. Gold wrote, the global layer of microbial sludge would be nearly five feet thick. "This would indeed be more than the existing surface flora and fauna,"...(https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/28/science/strange-new-micro...) |
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