Timeline for Rock/Mineral Ore Eating Organism
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| Dec 3, 2019 at 11:46 | vote | accept | AnonymousAuthor1999 | ||
| Nov 30, 2019 at 19:45 | comment | added | Christmas Snow | Yes, I mentioned that in the quote. The sulfur-based chemosynthesis may offer some partial solution. Other freshly-exposed minerals can be oxidised for energy as well. I still think that if such large organism evolves, it may be sluggish and cold-blooded for the same reason you stated. | |
| Nov 30, 2019 at 19:16 | comment | added | jamesqf | One problem with lithotrops as a dominant macroscopic life form is that they are limited by their food supply. There's really not that much of (or perhaps that fast of) a "lithocycle" that corresponds to the protosynthesis-driven carbon cycle that powers most life. | |
| Nov 30, 2019 at 18:30 | history | edited | Christmas Snow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 30, 2019 at 18:21 | history | answered | Christmas Snow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |