Plankton found thriving in space

There're them Aliens...now we have First Contact. Hey, don't be picky, OK. First Contact is first contact...deal with it.

Just wait until the Interstellar Whales start showing up...

Everyone is awfully cheeky, is anyone prepared to take this news seriously?

I mean this radically calls into question everything we've ever been told about the nature of space and life in it.

It will be food for the Tardigrade!! [link to www.bbc.co.uk]

Interstellar Alien Plankton what if sea creatures came from space?

does this mean it could be easier than we thought to grow food in space?

:ufo1:

Everyone is awfully cheeky, is anyone prepared to take this news seriously?

I mean this radically calls into question everything we've ever been told about the nature of space and life in it.

that means thet somewhere in the universe there's an ecosystem of ingravid lifeforms, from space plankton to space wales

Everyone is awfully cheeky, is anyone prepared to take this news seriously?

I mean this radically calls into question everything we've ever been told about the nature of space and life in it.

It doesn't come from outer space. It came from earth and survived in outer space because it was frozen.

What it probably DOES mean is that it would not have been that tough for life to get HERE from space, am I right?

In the vacuum of space???

how can it be a vacuum if its full of spores, plankton, dust, gasclouds, rocks, planets, water, stars....

vacuum my ass

lies lies lies

[link to www.dailymail.co.uk]

Traces of plankton and other microorganisms have been found living on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS), according to Russian space officials.

They claim the plankton were not carried there at launch – but are thought to have been blown there by air currents on Earth.

Incredibly, the tiny organisms were found to be able to survive in the vacuum of space despite the freezing temperatures, lack of oxygen and cosmic radiation.

The discovery was made during a routine spacewalk by Russian cosmonauts Olek Artemyev and Alexander Skvortsov, who were launching nanosatellites into space.

They used wipes to polish the surface of windows - also known as illuminators - on the Russian segment of the ISS and later found the presence of plankton and other microorganisms using ‘high-precision equipment’.

‘The results of the experiment are absolutely unique,’ said the head of the Russian ISS orbital mission Vladimir Solovyev.

HUH! Well how about that.

It's a harder vacuum than anything we can achieve in a laboratory vacuum chamber, but that is not to say it is completely empty.

It's a harder vacuum than anything we can achieve in a laboratory vacuum chamber, but that is not to say it is completely empty.

You do know that there HAS to be SOMETHING that EATS that plankton don't you?