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To: solitas
Mars has been getting contaminated with little earthling bacteria for hundreds of millions of years, probably billions of years. Happens almost everytime a good sized meteor or comet hits us.

Also, the Science Channel just ran a documentary recently that touched on the subject of terraforming Mars and they said there aren't any known bacteria on earth that could survive on Mars. It'd take some kind of extra-hardy extremophile and there aren't many of those in the clean room where these rovers were assembled. In all likelihood it'll take genetic engineering to come up with a bacterium that could make it on Mars.

22 posted on 01/31/2004 2:33:39 PM PST by LibWhacker (<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/">Miserable Failure</a>)
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To: LibWhacker
To paraphrase Neil Armstrong:

That's ... one small step for bug, one ... giant leap ... for bug-kind.

23 posted on 01/31/2004 2:37:50 PM PST by captain_dave
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