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Sea Plankton Found on Outside of International Space Station

posted by martyb on Friday August 22 2014, @12:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-see-icy-sea-creatures dept.

migz writes:

Stuff.co.nz reports

Russian space officials have confirmed traces of plankton and other micro-organisms were found living on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS), and it appears they've been living there for years.

This was also reported by c|net and ITAR-TASS.

How does this affect your views on finding life of some sort elsewhere in the universe?

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by sudo rm -rf on Friday August 22 2014, @07:27AM

    by sudo rm -rf (2357) on Friday August 22 2014, @07:27AM (#84255) Journal

    I was about to say just that. It's not hard to imagine that micro organisms can be raised to the upper level of the atmosphere by storms from where solar wind is blowing them out to space. After all, they don't weigh very much. (Radiopanspermia [wikipedia.org])

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