Johns Hopkins researchers took the toughest organism on Earth, put it between two steel plates, and hit it with three gigapascals of pressure — the equivalent of what a chunk of rock would experience being blasted off the surface of Mars by an asteroid impact. That's 30,000 times atmospheric pressure. Three times the deepest point of the Mariana Trench.
60% of the bacteria survived. In some tests, the equipment broke before the bacteria did.
This is the experiment that has scientists saying — seriously — "maybe we're Martians." From our deep dive into panspermia and lithopanspermia on IRH 268.
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