Life Will Keep Happening Beneath Earth's Surface Long After We're All Dead

by Charles Mudede janssenkruseproductions/gettyimages.com
In his controversial 1999 book, The Deep Hot Biosphere, late Austrian-born astrophysicist Thomas Gold speculated that, though there is certainly life on other planets, this life is likely to be in the ground and not the surface. Gold might have been a bit lost when it came to the whole abiogenic petroleum origin theory (nothing more will be said about that in this post); but it seems his theory on life and its grounded origin has a chance