Dear List,
Back in 1999 it seemed to me that in order for there
to be no life having ever existed on Mars one of two
conjectures, or both, must be true.
1. It is absolutely impossible for viable spores to
be transported by any natural process from the Earth
to Mars (No Free Ride Conjecture).
My contention is NOT that such a transfer is impossible, especially over billions of
Earth years. But I think it extraordinarily unlikely that the infant Mars could---in
the first 300 to 500 million years of solar system formation---evolve a hearty
population of anaerobic bacteria (capable of
.. Snip ... Bacteria could survive crash-landing on other planets, a
British team has found.
Interesting, but they appear to have kinda missed out the 'extreme
cosmic radiation' and the heat/cold bit, that would likely kill the
little suckers...
Best,
Mark Ford
The life from Mars fanatics make several leaps of faith in imagining Martian space
seeds, full of viable bacteria, raining down from our skies. If we accept that the
solar planets are all basically the same age, and life first appeared here a few
hundred million years after Earth's formation
Yikees
- Original Message -
From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Meteorite Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 6:54 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Alien Microbes Could Survive Crash-Landing
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040830/full/040830-10.html
I think their survival would depend if the planet
the bacteria came from had a helmet law
Sorry- list needs to smile a bit!
Everyone have a good night.
Mike Groetz
(Seriously, this was a very interesting article- Thank
You Ron).
--- Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has someone been going though their old SF and re-read The Andromeda Strain?
Tracy Latimer
From: Mike Groetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Meteorite Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Alien Microbes Could Survive Crash-Landing
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:10:38 -0700 (PDT)
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