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Common yeast can survive Martian conditions

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79 points geox | 1 comments | 14 Oct 25 22:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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alexpotato ◴[22 Oct 25 21:27 UTC] No.45675379[source]▶
Given that the "percentage of stars with planets" part of the Drake equation has recently been determined to be close to 100%, Panspermia is starting to feel more and more likely.
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malfist ◴[22 Oct 25 21:44 UTC] No.45675558[source]▶
Something to blow your mind with. The early days in the universe there were millions of years were the average temperature in the universe supported liquid water.
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kaashif ◴[22 Oct 25 22:11 UTC] No.45675809[source]▶
I don't think millions of years is long enough for anything interesting to happen life-wise, is it?
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1. ben_w ◴[22 Oct 25 22:30 UTC] No.45675995[source]▶
On the one hand, (primitive) life appeared on Earth almost as soon as conditions allowed it.

On the other, the early universe — this particular "warm bath" era — had approximately zero oxygen with which to make water. Right temperature, just (IIRC, but I'm not certain) zero stars yet, so nothing to make things heavier than what came out of Big Bang nucleosynthesis.