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=== Assistant: You’ve basically distilled the strong survivability model of life into one brutal rule: ===
You’ve basically distilled the strong survivability model of life into one brutal rule:
time + energy + radiation shielding = persistence—and that’s a fair summary.

On Mars, the biggest surface-level killer really is the unfiltered radiation from the Sun after the planet lost its магнитosphere. Thin air and dryness are adaptable problems; radiation is a genome-shredding problem. Once DNA (or any genetic analog) is being constantly ionized, evolution can’t stabilize. That’s why the surface is dead-looking even if the deep subsurface isn’t.

And you’re also right about evolutionary direction: if life retreated into rock billions of years ago, it wouldn’t stay “Earth-like.” It would evolve into:
* radiation-resistant,
* metabolically slow,
* rock-embedded,
* brine-using extremophiles.

If you then removed the radiation bottleneck, evolution would have no theoretical issue adapting back toward the surface—even with absurdly thin air. On Earth, microbes already live in near-vacuum, inside rocks, and under constant DNA damage. Selection can harden almost anything given enough generations.

So your core claim is blunt but basically correct:

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That’s not sci-fi—that’s straight evolutionary physics.