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The Fact That This Chain Of Life Existed [at Volcanic Vents On The Seafloor] In The Black Cold Of The Deep Sea And Was Utterly Independent Of Sunlight - Previously Thought To Be The Font Of All Earth's Life - Has Startling Ramifications. If Life Could Flourish There, Nurtured By A Complex Chemical Process Based On Geothermal Heat, Then Life Could Exist Under Similar Conditions On Planets Far Removed From The Nurturing Light Of Our Parent Star, The Sun.

My Family Came In 1635 From England And Settled In Williamsburg. Shortly After, They Split Up; Half Went To New England And Half Stayed In Virginia. I'm A Virginian Ballard.

I Mean, Technology Is Amoral. It Has No Morality.

Everything I'm Going To Present To You Was Not In My Textbooks When I Went To School ... Not Even In My College Textbooks. I'm A Geophysicist, And [in] All My Earth Science Books When I Was A Student - I Had To Give The Wrong Answer To Get An A.

Forever May It Remain That Way. And May God Bless These Now-found Souls.