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The only way it would help is if we had some other way to rule out asteroid impact ejecta but not probe contamination. So we'd have: 1) Life on Enceladus that's
by mcbits 9y ago
The only way it would help is if we had some other way to rule out asteroid impact ejecta but not probe contamination. So we'd have: 1) Life on Enceladus that's 2) genetically indistinguishable from Earth life, which 3) we know didn't travel on a rock, but 4) could have travelled on a probe. We're getting into teapot-orbiting-Mars territory.