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Firstly, the moon is pretty hostile: Radiation. No water. No oxygen. To survive the moon and then survive the oxygen rich atmosphere, the organism would need t
by nroets 3y ago
Firstly, the moon is pretty hostile: Radiation. No water. No oxygen.
To survive the moon and then survive the oxygen rich atmosphere, the organism would need to be built like a tank. So it's replication rate will be very very low.
Then it's also possible that some creature on earth may prey upon the new arrival and keep it in check.
Secondly: Asteroid impacts on the moon regularly send moon debris into our atmosphere and some of it even survives reentry.
- andbberger 3y ago> the organism would need to be built like a tank. So it's replication rate will be very very low. this does not follow
- sokoloff 3y agoWhat would be the metabolic energy source to fuel a high replication rate?
- speed_spread 3y agoRock and Radiation. Eventually the whole moon would be alive.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoAnd then it would look like Earth, or like something from a lovecraftian horror. It doesn't, so we're not at the high replication rate organism stage.
- andbberger 3y agofree energy and the hostility of the environment are decoupled eg deep sea vents