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>A life-form is very expensive (need to eat and breath) Not necessarily, many organisms can undergo cryptobiosis, where all metabolic activity ceases, and then
by rectangletangle 7y ago
>A life-form is very expensive (need to eat and breath)
Not necessarily, many organisms can undergo cryptobiosis, where all metabolic activity ceases, and then restarts when conditions are appropriate (sometimes decades later).
- andai 7y agoFungi & bacteria can turn into spores & travel through space. There was also recent article about fungus growing on the outside (!) of the space station.
- rjf72 7y agoThere are also things like tardigrades [1] which are pretty much the epoch of survival evolution. And this is all just stuff on our little planet. It's hard to say anything about life on a large scale, since we are basing everything we know on a sample of one. But it's probably safe to say that we have not even scratched the surface of what's possibility through just plain old evolution alone. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
- imtringued 7y agoThere are still a few billion years left for earth to shine.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> There are also things like tardigrades [1] which are pretty much the epoch of survival evolution “the epoch”? Apex, maybe?
- guelo 7y agoNematode worms have been brought back to life after having been frozen in tundra for 40,000 years.