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To: PatrickHenry
Although some of this outflowing material might become sterilised by heat and radiation, they believe that a significant fraction would survive.

I think here's the crux. We obviously exchange some matter with interstellar space. Whether anything could survive the pulverizing impacts, the radiation, the long times involved, etc. is another question.

4 posted on 02/12/2004 6:41:16 AM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
Whether anything could survive ...

Most won't. The fittest will. We are the descendants of the toughest spores in the galaxy.

7 posted on 02/12/2004 6:44:28 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: VadeRetro
Whether anything could survive...

NASA brought back parts of an unmanned Moon probe and revitalized the bacteria found on it.
(errantly contaminated before it was sent - yeah, right...)

39 posted on 02/12/2004 10:14:59 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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