I am not sure if this on topic or not but it seems to me that this bit of evidence would have a profound impact on the odds of there being life on other planets. I know that most of those other planets are a long way away but still, 'life will out'.
Beer microbes live 553 days outside ISS - BBC NewsBacteria 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.