From: m (mt_2@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Mar 20 1999 - 07:38:05 MST
---Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> pressure. They grow in extremely hostile environments such as a
scanning
> microscope's vacuum (cue Dr Fred Hoyle), and most astounding of all
they
> `appeared to move,' according to Uwins. `When I put the electron
beam on
> them, they moved away, which is not a typical mineral reaction.'
[...]
> Implications that strike me at once range from some version of the
> Andromeda Strain (`They released the Germs from Hell, which will eat
our
> surface world!') to the Great Filter (ditto, except that this
happens on
There is that line in that movie "In a vacuum, bombarded by
electrons?" When the bug is busily reproducing under such
conditions... although it
actually enjoyed that environment!
Mike
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