From: noneya@business.com   
      
   Smith wrote:   
   >   
   > I do find it curious though that the general response here seems that   
   > as any earth organism would be unable to live/reproduce/thrive in such   
   > an environment, consideration of their dispersal is rendered   
   > uninteresting.   
   >   
   > I suppose lurking in my uninformed thought was a notion of "earth   
   > DNA" as potent information, even if not mechanically active.  I   
   > understand it is considered in the realm of possibility that bacterial   
   > spores may possess integrity measured in "geologic" stretches...   
   >   
   > "On the basis of such laboratory experiments, it has been proposed   
   > that with proper shielding, bacterial spores might survive UV   
   > irradiation for very long periods, perhaps millions of years."   
      
   I've always felt that the two possible answers to the question of is   
   there life in the rest of the universe is either "yes" or "not yet". If   
   we can't find it, then at some point we should start spreading it. Take   
   a big blob of primordial hydrocarbon feasting ooze and put it into an   
   armored bunker-buster casing and drop it on Titan in a probe that would   
   survive an impact and burrow into the surface. And just let it do it's   
   thing.   
      
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