h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

and only one millimetre long

and If NASA believes it, who are you to doubt?

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130306.html

Wow! I had to look at the date, to make sure it wasn't April.

That's just amazing, thanks, Rod!

Way cool since it is so small, that is. I wouldn't want it to live indoors though. I think it is a good candidate for 'it came from far away'. Looks like an ET to me. I wonder if Nigel's aliens know about its home planet, but space is a very big place, so it's not likely.

The damn' things are everywhere. Everywhere, I tell you! What's more, it was us - Us, wot sent 'em into space.

I'll bet they want their ticket money back.

Started for Phobos, ended up in orbit.

The Russians might find MORE ET action under Anarctica. In Lake Vostok under a lot of ice.

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-scientists-may-found-life-under-antarctic-ice-181834535.html

... how careful have they been? Has any of it escaped into our ecosphere?

Oh dear! Now I'm worried. I'm about to be supplanted

I think that they have been pretty careful NOT to contaminate this pristine and older than ancient water source. They aren't likely to release THE BLOB THAT ATE NEW ZEALAND just yet.

But how careful is pretty careful?

Have they taken into account that some of them there thingies might be more advanced than they are?

Thanks for the (attempted) reassurance, Elektra but...

Well if you are going to worry about every single thing that COULD go wrong go ahead. But you DO realize that worrying tends to shorten people's lives as well.

Aha!
Yes, so I'm told...

But then again, the older you get, the fewer old people there still are - and I ain't done too badly so far.

Just make it quick, eh?
Just give me the pills. I'll take the decision, the responsibility and the consequences.
(and I promise to send in a report for )


On the other hand, one does get that sneaking feeling that fate has something extra special in store, just for you ... ?

?

You two are impossible.

Oh, I dunno. Me, at least, is possible & to prove it there's an entry awaiting - unless, meantime, something makes delivery impossible.

Have a nice day

oh yes (forgot)

and the other one... well, no doubt you'll know by now what SHE thinks of being impossible

Have a nicer evening

'Tardigrades are more common than humans'

Dang, there goes the neighbourhood...

That's probably what THEY think.