Organic Matter and the Moon, by Carl Sagan (1961) / Chapter Skim
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V. POSSIBILITY OF AN INDIGENEOUS LUNAR PARABIOLOGY
V. POSSIBILITY OF AN INDIGENEOUS LUNAR PARABIOLOGY
Pages 24-25
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If a similar event also occurred on the Moon, natural selection may be expected to have kept pace with the increasingly more severe lunar environment, at least for some period of time. As the lunar atmosphere escaped to space, surface temperatures and radiation fluxes became more extreme, and meteoritic debris began covering the synthesized organic matter, it is only reasonable to anticipate that any indigenous organisms took to a subsurface existence.
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It is probably unnecessary to remark that the study of any extraterrestrial organism will have the deepest influence on the fundamental problems of biology. Even if the chances of success are small, attempts should be made to detect lunar subsurface autochthons, both living and dead.
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