Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2014 19:30:41 GMT -6
This is interesting to find.
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Sounds like life is more resilient than some may have given it credit for. Hmmm....
I wonder if it might be worth designing a new rocket, meant to simply reach upper orbital levels, to come back down. I wonder how high a life form can live in what combination of conditions? Nothing in even a basic animal form, I'm sure... However, could a virus survive in the right conditions?
'Here lay the human race...survived everything, to include their own brush with nuclear weapons. Dead by the Galactic Flu trapped in an oversized snowball'
That would be quite an epitaph.
Well, would you look at that: scientists have discovered that DNA can make it through the hellish ordeal of atmospheric re-entry after all. German and Swiss researchers dotted a rocket's grooves and screw heads with fragments of genetic blueprints to see how they'd fare in situations that could've led to the appearance of life on Earth.
Sounds like life is more resilient than some may have given it credit for. Hmmm....
I wonder if it might be worth designing a new rocket, meant to simply reach upper orbital levels, to come back down. I wonder how high a life form can live in what combination of conditions? Nothing in even a basic animal form, I'm sure... However, could a virus survive in the right conditions?
'Here lay the human race...survived everything, to include their own brush with nuclear weapons. Dead by the Galactic Flu trapped in an oversized snowball'
That would be quite an epitaph.
