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Re:Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues ... by dragonsky67 on Monday September 28, 2020 @07:16PM (#24622292)
What about something that eats proten and requires water. A fungus comes to mind. If you are talking Virus, it needs to be able to highjack teresterial DNA, a fungus or similar only needs to find us tasty.
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Re:Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues ... by BurningFrog on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:34PM (#24632633)
Yeah, viruses need to coevolve with their prey. Which is why the computer virus in * Independence Day* was so silly.

And I think terrestrial immune systems can handle microorganisms, whether they're DNA based or not. It hunts based on shape, as I understand it.

I was thinking microorganisms, since anything big we can just kill on sight. But when you mention it, something insect size could be very hard to fight.

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