[meteorite-list] Bugs In Space!

[Becky and Kirk]

Phil,
    How is this "junk" science????
              Kirk...........
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Bugs In Space!


> G'day, Konnichiwa, Aloha, Top 'o the morning to ya!:
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> Microbes from outer space living in the upper atmosphere and bacteria 
> living for millions of years! If I only had more time to read junk 
> science!
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> Phil Whitmer
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> Hi listees,
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> Some interesting reading...
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> "...To test if meteorites might protect bacteria on their journey
> through space, Horneck and her colleagues mixed samples of 50 million
> spores with particles of clay, red sandstone, Martian meteorite, or
> simulated Martian soil and made small lumps a centimeter in diameter.
> Between 10,000 and 100,000 spores of the original 50 million survived
> and when mixed with red sandstone, nearly all survived, suggesting that
> even meteorites a centimeter in diameter can carry life from one planet
> to another, if they completed the journey within a few years. In a rock
> a meter across, bacteria could probably survive for millions of years...."
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> Still don't believe?
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