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I recently stumbled on a very interesting article about microbes surviving on meteorites: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/06/can-microbes-survive-millions-of-years-traveling-in-space-experts-say-yes.html

Some scientists have tested the limits of those microbes and concluded that they could survive millions of years on meteoroids ejected from the Earth during an asteroid impact. Therefore these meteoroids could travel and end up on Mars, Titan or Europa, bringing microbial life there. This wouldn't be alien life, but still...

Its fascinating how resilient these simple organisms are!



that's bad a**

the fact that they used eukaryotic organisms as well was really cool. Its a beautiful idea to think that life could have journeyed for many years to find its home where it could survive. I'd even go as far to say its romantic, its truly a beautiful idea. Its diffidently my personal favorite.