I read an article a couple months ago about that very thing. Scientists have observed that microorganisms have survived in things like molten lava and laying dormant in fossilized amber. They even found that bacteria had gone dormant inside of equipment left on the moon and then re-awoke once it was brought to a better environment.
-Tim > > Interesting, but how would non-sentient life forms > travel from Mars to Earth (or vice versa)? I guess > debris could be ejected from one planet to another via > impact of a large extraplanetary object, but would > hitch hiking organism survive the ride? > > I find an exciting prospect to be that we _might_ > discover organisms or even fossils of Martian > organisms that developed under very different > conditions than Earth. Even if we don't, we will still > learn much about the prospects for life developing on > other planets by closer analysis. > > But the most exciting prospect is that this discovery > makes a trip to Mars, or even colonization of Mars a > much stronger possibility. > > John Hebert > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
