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		alnwlsn 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It Awaits Your Experiments > only known organism to have ever lived on the Moon Anyone know what this is referring to? The only instance I know of was the Surveyor 3 camera, which was supposedly Streptococcus mitis and even that situation is greatly contested.

dekhn 8 months ago [–]

their description of deinococcus has several errors. For example, they claim it reproduces without DNA, which is not true.

lproven 8 months ago | [–]

Yeah, Conan the Bacterium is tough, but it's not magical. It's really really good at fixing DNA errors but it still has DNA and errors in it.

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