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 ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20289 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 
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Anyone for a Beer and Panspirmia?... Beer microbes live 553 days outside ISS ... The bacteria were sent up still sitting on, and in, small chunks of cliff rock. They would have been exposed to extreme ultraviolet light, cosmic rays, and dramatic shifts in temperature. All the water in the limestone would also have boiled away into the vacuum of space. Quite how they managed to come through their 553-day ordeal is now being investigated. ... Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 1027785 ·  |
John McCallum  Send message Joined: 5 Dec 04 Posts: 877 Credit: 599,458 RAC: 8
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They did a simmilar experiment on "woolie bears" a primitive creature that normaly lives in watery environments such as your rainwater guttering or temporary ponds and found that they also survived quite well. Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care ID: 1029507 · |
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