I read in the Times of a quite strange event-
Antarctic explorers' an experiment:
They drilled through the ice, a mile maybe, or so,
And extracted some water from a lake below,
And what they beheld, they did hardly expect:
Some weird, strange bacteria they did soon detect.
The question arose, since we well understood,
That all life on earth depends on Old Sol,
How did these bacteria obtain their food
Down there, without oxygen or light at all?
Did they feed on debris that came down from above,
Or on their own dead bodies – a cannibal race?
Or did they feed on some mineral trove,
Like life forms in some remote planet in space?
It seems DNA tests must be run, 'til it's stated
If we to these creatures are somehow related...