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		WalterBright 44 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Extremophile molds are invading art museums If you can get extremophiles to live on other planets, it becomes much more possible for humans to. It's a necessary precursor.

squibonpig 43 days ago [–]

Why? For the foreseeable future we'd survive using a bunch of complicated tech. Not so for extremophiles. How's plopping a couple of unicellular organisms on a planet help us learn to do it ourselves?

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