Leven onder extreme omstandigheden

About this episode

Het onderwerp is weleens vaker langsgekomen in deze podcast: de neiging van levende wezens om zelfs onder de meest bizarre omstandigheden te persisteren. Recent kwam op dit gebied twee keer iets interessants in de wetenschappelijke literatuur, dus leek het mij aardig daar weer eens aandacht aan te besteden. Extreme environmental tolerance and space survivability of the moss, Physcomitrium patens: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)02088-7 Mossen: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossen 'We were genuinely astonished': This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station and could still grow on Earth: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/we-were-genuinely-astonished-this-moss-survived-9-months-outside-the-international-space-station-and-could-still-grow-on-earth Mosses in low earth orbit: implications for the limits of life and the habitability of Mars: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1889 The Apollo 12 crew brought back Surveyor 3’s camera after 31 months on the Moon, and NASA reported finding live Streptococcus bacteria inside it, but later evidence pointed to contamination in Houston: https://