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Originally Posted by jjjnettie
I really am very excited by this. The implications are enormous.
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That's why they assemble space probes in sterile cleanrooms. One sneeze is all it takes, or one ungloved, unsanitised hand to touch a probe, and the next minute we've got forests of super bugs growing on the surface of Mars!!!!. Or maybe we do get invaded by Martians, only they're originally refugees from Earth. Or maybe they start having kids with the locals and the resulting bugs end up really souped up, then we start hearing...."No one would've believed, that in the last years of the 21st Century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space......."!!!.
Earth bacteria would have no problems surviving on Mars or in many other places in the solar system.