Christian Bök / The Extremophile
Astronauts fear it. Biologists fear it. It is not human. It lives
in isolation. It grows in complete darkness. It derives no
energy from the Sun. It feeds on asbestos. It feeds on concrete.It
inhabits a seam of gold on Level 104 of the Mponeng
Mine in Johannesburg. It lives in alkaline lakelets full of
arsenic. It grows in lagoons of boiling asphalt. It thrives in
a deadly miasma of hydrogen sulphide. It breathes iron. It
breathes rust. It needs no oxygen to live. It can survive for
a decade without water. It can withstand temperatures of
323 °k, hot enough to melt rubidium. It can sleep for 100
millennia inside a crystal of salt, buried in Death Valley. It
does not die in the hellish infernos at the Stadtbibliothek
during the firebombing of Dresden. It does not burn when
exposed to ultraviolet rays. It does not reproduce via the
use of dna. It breeds, unseen, inside canisters of hairspray.
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