Re: SPACE: Lunar Ben&Jerrys?

From: Enigl@aol.com
Date: Tue Dec 31 1996 - 18:01:16 MST


In a message dated 96-12-31 01:12:24 EST, you write:
 
<< Michael Lorrey writes:
  
>One report said that this might be a prelude to discovering microbes on the

>Moon. Rubbish.
  
 Why?
  
 Kennita
>>
 
I think this is because the Moon has not been thought to ever had any
bioavailable water at all (unlike Mars). It's also very cold and any life
hitting there would be cryo-preserved and vacuum freeze dried, but not would
not grow or evolve.

That makes me wonder if we could recover viable _Bacillus_ or _Clostridium_
spores (or mold ascospores) placed there accidently or by a microbiology
experiment. Is the Moon able to sterilize the Earthly spores?
 

Davin C. Enigl, MS-MEAS
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December 31, 1996
4:31 pm



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