Re: SPACE: Lunar Ben&Jerrys?

Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Tue, 31 Dec 1996 09:36:04 -0500


Kennita Watson wrote:
>
> Michael Lorrey writes:
>
> >One report said that this might be a prelude to discovering microbes on the
> >Moon. Rubbish.
>
> Why?

WIth absolutely no atmosphere, you've got ice at near absolute zero. The
possibility of life forming, surviving, etc, esp in that small 150 mile
dia zone (with a young crater they would have basically zero time to
develop) in a vacuum at 3 deg above absolute zero is basically near
impossible.

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