Life has been evolving here on earth for billions of years. And that whole time, the moon has been dormant and dead. So if you took a mass of human peces, poop, whatever we call it, ship, and you desicated it, dried it evalvs water about half its weight as bacteria, it represents this enormous array of life. There's something like a thousand species of microbes that live in our gut. The answer to whether that life is still living, or how long it lived while it was on the moon, really points to some fascinating questions about the origin of life on earth. What is the upper limit for the resiliency of life, and what can life