Peter Todd <pete <at> petertodd.ca> writes:

> > >> Withstand     -200C: check
> > >> Withstand     +150C: check
> > >> Withstand txic env.: check
> > >> Withstand 1% humid.: check
> > >> Withstand vacuum.  : check
> > >> Withstand press.   : check
> > >> Wisthand radiation : check
> > >> Hibernate 10+years : check
> > >
> > >Sounds like the specs for circuits I get asked to make.

> > You forgot one:
> > 
> > Cost: < $5
> 
> Also, look cuddly under a microscope.

Gummi bears forever ! (literally - these things are older than cockroaches and
will outlive them too).

Imho, when someone is looking at an organism that could be a candidate for
(rapid) panspermia at least in the solar system, look no further. These guys and
a few hardy extremophile bacteria or algae they could feed on frozen in a
meteorite slammed out of some planet with H2O (by another meteorite) and
slamming into some planet with H2O within 10 years or so and there's your
panspermia in action.

I used to think that the sterilization done to spacecraft before sending them
off to other planets is overkill. Not anymore. And, in fact, I think that normal
sterilization will not get these guys. Withstand 150 degC ? Oops, we may have
been involved in panspermia. But now it is easy to find proof ;-)

Peter P.


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