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NullTuples

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7. Interesting paper on the extremophile organisms in the Salton Sea (link)
Sat Jun 4, 2022, 11:47 PM
Jun 2022

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00780/pdf

Plus it's not just minerals that end up there, but also massive amounts of pesticides & other chemicals from the Valley's farm industries.

Essentially the Salton Sea is so inhospitable to life it gives us the ability to map some of the edge conditions.

It would make me happy to see it become a building block toward saving the planet.
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