yellow said:FWIW:
I take that to mean that (assuming it's real), it divides and recreates itself in very, very, very, hot temps. Meaning it's still "alive", where many (most?) other forms of life, as we know it, would be dead.
I was talking about the actual journal article not CNN's article.
The journal article contains absolutely no discussion or experiments on surviving at high temperatures or reproducing at any temperature.
The only discussion of survival is
The particles are very stable against decay with time. Even after storage in the original rainwater at room
temperature without any preservative for about 4 years, no decay or discolouration of the particles could be found.
He includes no valid biological investigation in the article and consult no biologists in the limited analysis that he did perform.
I'm just saying that this is highly suspect - and should not represent anything more than a lay person's opinion on the particles.