Beer microbes live 553 days outside ISS

BBC ^ | 08/23/10 | Jonathan Amos

[Frenchtown Dan]

A small English fishing village has produced an out-of-this-world discovery.

Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote These are just everyday organisms that live on the coast in Beer in Devon and they can survive in space” End Quote Dr Karen Olsson-Francis

Open University Bacteria taken from cliffs at Beer on the South Coast have shown themselves to be hardy space travellers.

The bugs were put on the exterior of the space station to see how they would cope in the hostile conditions that exist above the Earth's atmosphere.

And when scientists inspected the microbes a year and a half later, they found many were still alive.

[Frenchtown Dan]

Still waiting for the Bourbon Microbes

[humblegunner]

Already posted here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2575781/posts

[billorites]

[Frenchtown Dan]

Nuts. Don’t know how I missed that one.

Thanks.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

No news here. Microbes have been shown to survive for a long time in hostile conditions. No doubt someone will use this to claim that life on earth came from microbes hitchhiking on comets.