"homunculus" writes:
First, bacteria would constitute organic life. I'm not aware of any such bacteria in the 'observable universe', outside of earth.
It may interest you then that
bacteria (Streptococcus sp.) survived unprotected on the moon for more than 30 years. Astronaut Pete Conrad was astute in his observation:
"I always thought the most significant thing that we ever found on the whole...Moon was that little bacteria who came back and lived and nobody ever said [anything] about it."
Microbes surviving in deep space is not such a far fetched idea. That’s why an Earth-only abiogenesis seems so ridiculous to me. “Vital dust,” as De Duve calls it, may be drifting around out there as the "source of life."
I can see Lower Slobovia from my house.
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