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To: cripplecreek
"Life is amazingly tenacious so it’s really hard to say that it can’t happen."

Oh sure, there are all sorts of bacterial spores that just hang on for dear life in the harshest of environments. Who knows. I wouldn't put it past them to survive in space.

13 posted on 08/09/2007 3:44:12 PM PDT by Bladerunnuh
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To: Bladerunnuh

In my opinion, duration of the exposure to radiation would be the biggest hurdle. A few decades is one thing but billions of years is another thing altogether.


14 posted on 08/09/2007 3:47:25 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: Bladerunnuh

One of the later Apollo mission took a swab from a piece of equipment that had been left from one of the earliest Apollo missions. It had been exposed to unfiltered sunshine, solar wind, and cosmic rays for about 3 years. It cultured positive for stapholococcus. I have bugs in my nickel plating tank at PH 3.5 that would do just dandy in a hot spring on Mars. Life will find a way.


27 posted on 08/10/2007 1:15:56 PM PDT by darth
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