Scientists shocked to discover plankton on exterior of International Space Station

Scientists shocked to discover plankton on exterior of International Space Station

For those who believe there could be life in space, this discovery is huge: Scientists have reportedly found traces of plankton on the outside of the International Space Station.

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Scientists shocked to discover plankton on exterior of International Space Station

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For those who believe there could be life in space, this discovery is huge: Scientists have reportedly found traces of plankton on the outside of the International Space Station.
Russian scientists discovered the plankton while studying samples from the exterior of the ISS — samples they only found because they were doing a routine cleaning of the ISS' windows. Scientists are now baffled about how these marine organisms made their way into space.
Vladimir Solovyev, head of ISS's Russian segment and orbital mission, told RT the plankton traces prove that life in space is possible for some organisms — the plankton survived even in subzero temperatures and without oxygen. "The results of the experiment are absolutely unique," Solovyev told Russia's Itar-Tass. "This should be studied further."
The even stranger part of the story is that the Russian scientists discovered the plankton aren't native to Baikonur, Kazakhstan, from where the Russian modules of the station blasted off. The scientists speculate that air currents may have carried the plankton into space.
NASA has not yet commented on the plankton discovery.
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Scientists shocked to discover plankton on exterior of International Space Station

One possible explanation would be this: When the Soviet Probe that went to visit the Asteroid Belt in the 1970s found that the Asteroid belt had once been a planet destroyed by Nuclear weapons, this might be the answer. Because if a planet blew up 65 million years ago there and a piece of it killed all the big dinosaurs in the Gulf of Mexico then as well, it is also possible that water from it's oceans went into space intact. (When water is in space sometimes if it doesn't all blow apart it congeals to itself. This water could then have either frozen in space on one side or melted from the heat of the sun on the other side. But, if it was spinning in a consistent manner there might have been someplace in this spin with constant heat of the type needed for plankton to live. Also, they would have sunlight and their water to live in as well as any oxygen that didn't go off into space. 

I remember being in a natural hot springs near Mammoth at night when it was about 25 degrees outside. As long as I spinned slowly I didn't get too burned or too freezing where I was there in between ice cold water and burning hot water. So, likely some effect like this with too much sun and not enough sun might have kept plankton alive?

However, this is just a theory but people would have to take a glob of  ocean water and park it in space to see if this effect really works.  For example, can plankton survive and reproduce in the cosmic rays unprotected by a magnetosphere? If they can maybe humans can learn something about this so we don't all go sterile in our presently degrading magnetosphere from as yet unproven causes like Geomagnetic reversal or Geomagnetic excursion. We might need to know more about this because in places the Magnetosphere near the poles is already at Zero to 10% of what it was in 2000 AD. in moving cracks.