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Scientists find traces of sea plankton on ISS surface

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Re: Scientists find traces of sea plankton on ISS surface

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{Nat Turner says} This finding on the International Space Station makes it clear that the earth is surrounded by an aura of life, at least in the form of plankton. Though the particular type of plankton has not been identified, it has been established that it is not the type of plankton, which would have possibly been picked up from the delivery launch area of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan . Were the plankton picked up before launch, doubtless the extreme heat would have destroyed them. The ISS has been orbiting the earth since 1998 at an altitude of between 330 km / 205 mi and 435 km /270 mi It is clear that if they are first lifted from the sea into the atmosphere by rising air currents and winds, when those winds dissipate that the plankton carries on at their own steam as though drifting in the seas. The oceans have been here some 4,400 billion years, it must be posited that what ever means the plankton has used to make it into space onto the ISS, has been going on since that time. The unthinkable alternative is that the deeps, of space, is full of this life form, which of course will give the evolutionists new material, other than asteroids, with which to rework their theories of the seeding of life on earth.

Re: Scientists find traces of sea plankton on ISS surface

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This reminds me of a little theory in microbiology, that is that every species exists in every place. For example, if you were to build an alkaline lake in the middle of nowhere (where no alkaline lakes exists), it wouldn't take long before specific species of bacteria would colonize that lake.

That sounds suspiciously like spontaneous generation - what is the actual theory?

Did some research as it seems people don't like it when you don't have citations.

A Dutch researcher named Baas Becker wrote in 1934 "Everything is everywhere, but the environment selects".

Re: Scientists find traces of sea plankton on ISS surface

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

So they also survived an impact with the orbitting station at 9 km/s? I don't think so.

If the bacteria floated up to LEO (which is very possible) the impact was likely in the meters/second range because it would have had to match the orbit closely enough. Because bacteria are so small (and the filaments they use to support the cell membrane is so strong) it would take an extreme impact to "splatter" them. Remember also that archaeic bacteria (as well as simple multicellular organisms) live on the botto…

If the bacteria floated up to LEO...

LEO is not a place.

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