Of course these microbes were!! They were from an incredibly advanced civilization, light years across the universe. Sent here in their micro-spaceship to infect life on this planet with special genes that would lead to intelligent life.
Geeesh....you didn't KNOW that? <^..^>
“This is one of the out-of-the-way places, the unvisited places, bleak, wasted, dying.
“This is a farmhouse, handmade, crude, a house without electricity or gas, a house untouched by progress.
“This is the woman who lives in the house, a woman who’s been alone for many years, a strong, simple woman whose only problem up until this moment has been that of acquiring enough food to eat, a woman about to face terror, which is even now coming at her from - The Twilight Zone.”
Paging Agnes Moorehead; paging Agnes Moorehead; Agnes Moorehead, please pick up the white courtesy phone...