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Author Topic:   Could life evolve in the vacuum of outer space?
Dr Jack
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06-17-2009 4:49 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by howdoideletethis
06-17-2009 12:23 PM


All life requires a substrate; substances it takes in to do useful things with. In the vacuum of space everything would be at such a low concentration to make that impossible.
On/in comets, asteroids, etc. is faintly more plausible, but - still - I think it's radically unlikely.

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