(April 9, 2014 at 12:25 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: NASA - Microbial Creatures In Space
Millions of little organisms went with us.
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If this is true it means that life, even if only in the form of DNA particles, has been travelling around the universe long before humans invented spacecraft and it will continue to travel even if we become extinct.
Not sure if you're intentionally missing my point or not. We are the only species to intentionally escape the bounds of our own atmosphere. Considering we've only been here a blink of an eye compared to the rest of life on this planet, I'd say that makes this act somewhat rare.
