Could Fossils of Ancient Life From Earth Reside On the Moon?

MarkWhittington writes Does the moon contain fossils of billions of years old organisms from Earth? That theory has been laid out in recent research at the Imperial College of London, reported in a story in Air and Space Magazine by Dr. Paul Spudis, a lunar and planetary geologist. The implications for science and future lunar exploration are profound. Scientists have known for decades that planets and moons in the Solar System exchange material due to impacts. A large meteor smashes into a planet, Mars for example, and blasts material into space. That material eventually finds itself landing on another planet, Earth in this case. Mars rocks have been discovered on Earth since the 1980s. Other rocks from the moon and, it is surmised, Mercury have also been found, blasted into space billions of years ago to eventually find themselves on Earth.

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Re:Yes!

[NotDrWho]

That makes another good reason to go back to the Moon!

And I take it you're volunteering my grandchildren to pay for it? Because *YOU* and *I* aren't even paying enough taxes for the government to pay its bills for the stuff it's already doing right now. And I say "government" because I don't see any private companies stepping forward to go to the moon (not unless they're looking for the government to pay them to, that is).

But if you want to start a company that's going to go to the moon without using any of my grandkid's tax money to do it, then yes, I'm all for it. I'll be watching your launch on TV and wishing you well.