Comment Re:permenant orbit? (Score 1) 335
(Yeah, I know but someone already said there is a theory which says it might be possible for bacteria to still be viable, even after 11 years in the frozen vacuum of space.)
This is entirely possible - as part of my work only yesterday I had to find a scientific article relating to leptospira (the pathogenic organism which causes Weil's disease) which survived being dried and kept in a frozen vacuum for 10 years.