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by plxxyzs 562 days ago
Basically microorganisms were able to grow in a sterile asteroid sample faster than previously anticipated. So just because there are signs of life in a recently fallen meteorite is less likely to mean there are space bacteria on it.
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We should expect that, as the area is miraculously devoid of competitors, poisoners like fungus and predators. Those bacteria are the first colonists.

Now we can wait for a colon bacteria colonizing this space turd and the jokes will write itself.