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Life on an Asteroid; Is it possible?
Topic Started: Aug 8 2009, 09:46 PM (522 Views)
The Dodo
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I was just wondering if it was possible for life to survive on an asteroid. The life doesn't have to of developed on the asteroid just could something survive on one.

The organism would most likely be a microbe. What do you think?
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Are you plausible?

The is closely related to panspermia, and it's a popular one. According to many sources it's also a plausible one.
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I see no reason it couldn't harbor life, though not complex life (obviously). Or, if so, not very complex. Probably nothing more than some kind of tubifex-worm sort of organism. Most likely only microbes though.
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"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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how about something really massive and plantlike(the niche sense only i guess since i seriously doubt a plant or anything similar could survive on an asteroid) that takes root in the asteroid and uses it as raw material...

unless you mean earth/earthlike life, then to my knowledge the waterbear might survive...
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It doesn't have to be earth like life, just any living thing.
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