New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station
wired.com"A" Chinese space station is perhaps the more intriguing part of that headline.
Unique strains of bacteria in confined, isolated places presumably happens a lot. Space stations don't undergo mitosis nearly as often.
So if it turns out they evolved on the space station, would that mean we discovered extra-terrestrial life, or is that cheating?
It wouldn't count in my mind because it's not life that originated off the Earth. It just mutated off the Earth.