QUOTE: "...the bottom line, says Bo Barker Jørgensen, a marine microbiologist at Aarhus University who was not involved with the work, is “low food and energy seem not to set the ultimate limit for life on Earth.”

dhw: I can’t help wondering if, in say a few hundred years’ time, scientists won’t crack all the bacterial secrets and find ways to keep humans alive for millions of years. Perish the thought!

Death has to be built in. It is not an error.