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> I don't think we'd find that very exciting.

Uh, that would be absolutely, positively very exciting to find microbes that originated someplace other than Earth. If you expect we'll find little green humanoid-looking things, you're going to be highly disappointed for likely centuries.




> microbes that originated someplace other than Earth

Well we could never be sure of that without real samples. Who's to say it's not all the result of panspermia?




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