by Roberto — Elio started his "Ice-cold Pin­na­cles and Ex­treme Sci­ence" post of a cou­ple of weeks ago – where he de­scribed un­usual mi­cro­bial struc­tures in the bot­tom Lake Vanda in Antarc­tica – with these ob­ser­va­tions: "We may be run­nin out of strange places to ex­plore life on Earth, which is a shame be­cause they of­ten pro­vide us with un­ex­pected and ex­cit­ing find­ings, es­pe­cially mi­cro­bial."