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Article talks about it. Known Earth microbes. If it was already there it would have been something novel
by malfist 2y ago
Article talks about it. Known Earth microbes.
If it was already there it would have been something novel
- Stevvo 2y agoThey dismissed it as being from earth based on "Population statistics", not determining them to be known earth microbes.
- tbrownaw 2y agoFrom clicking through to the study, that was counting the microbes over time, measuring the growth rate, and noticing that there would have been a lot more if they'd been there since the beginning.
- K0balt 2y agoUnless panspermia is much more common than usually imagined. If much of the thousands of tons of extraterrestrial debris that falls to earth every year was teeming with microbes we might not easily tell the difference. But I very strongly suspect this is not the case.