Living on thin air: microbe mystery solved

Paper can be found at [1]

[1] Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil [ https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25014 ]

To quote a movie "life finds a way". Provided an organism can scrape together enough energy and at least minimal nutrients it can survive. I've always been fascinated by the question of how such life actually got started there.

Interesting applications could be found, such as scrubbing noxious gases from atmosphere... If it is energy efficient enough in comparison to inorganic processes.

God I love the tenacity of life.

Tenacity is a human value. (Maybe can be applied to higher animals.) What you probably meant is persistence.

Too much antromophizing can break a field... and then you get intelligent design in schools.

Another interesting human value is pedantry.

And parent comment's perseverance in propagating knowledge to educate bystanders even given the improbability of literally any return for himself.