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LIVING CREATURES

IN SPACE*

From a narrow terrestrial point of view animal

life consists of 29 known elements.

can bear temperatures no higher

ponent is water; it than 100 0 C. and otherwise in this state it

Its main com-

no lower than 1000-2000

cannot live (insensibility, or anabiosis), and is only

preserved; the majority require a definite mean temperature, close to 200 C. life requires atmosphere containing oxygen and water vapor. i.e., motion and thought or zoophytes).

[sic];

Animal

Source of its activity,

other organisms or, in extreme cases, Sun (animal-plants,

Apparently, animal life cannot e-dst without atmospheric pressure

and without gravity.

Its body should have a temperature higher than point of freez-

ing and no greater than 37-40 0 C.

Mature animal life has a definite growth [limit].

Even the highest animal (man) are not nerfect.

For instance, the life span is

short, the brain is small and poorly constructed, etc. In essence all this is only the result of orientation to conditions of life on Earth -

mainly to life on the equator -

and criterion of incomplete phylogenetic

variety, indicates worlds in the universe, on periodicity and complexity of matter and phenomena - without end, the existence of infinitely remote epochs, when there were "ether" animals not similar to terrestrial and difficult to imagine, although complete and conscious.
 * Article gives a broad view of overall propagation of life in space, on its

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