From:	The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Life in space
Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 1993 13:43:45 GMT

>The trouble with this idea is that mana is created by LIFE, not by
>intelligence. And the biosphere of the earth extends every where within the
>atmosphere.

Ah, so you can have intelligence without life. AI, AI, cap'n.


>As for Obiwan, the Star Wars series is set in a galaxy where there is
>atmosphere between the stars. (Hence such things as Han and Leia getting out of
>the Falcon in the asteriod wearing nothing more than clothes and respirators).

There were inside a giant worm that probably had enough pressureized gas to
keep them from exploding, as well as being warm enough to keep them from
freezing to death (besides which, they were dressed for cold weather
anyway). You cannot breath in Star Wars space.

>With atmosphere, life is possible.

What about a being that lives on sunlight and minute hydrogen particles? It
could survive in space.

>(As a side note, life can exist without atmosphere. The Apollo astronauts found
>bacteria on the Moon, brought by earlier missions and probes. And satellites
>brought in for inspection via the Space Shuttle have been found to have large
>bacteria colonies)

Do why say "with atmosphere, life is possible"?