I've already asked this question, but I think I'll get an educated answer here: Can bed bugs survive in a VACUUM sealed plastic bag? As I understand it, nothing can survive in a vacuum.
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You are correct in assuming nothing can survive a HARD vacuum, such as is found in outer space. Water 'boils' in a vacuum, so any organism caught in it will be dessicated. BUT -- if you are talking about one of those clothing bags that you suck the air out of -- those do not create a 'hard vacuum'. There is enough oxygen trapped between the fibers of the cloth to allow the pesky little critters to survive for weeks, even months, and not enough vacuum to dessicate them -- or their eggs. IF you could remove ALL of the air -- and I mean ALL of it -- then you could kill the little rascals. But those vacuum unit don't generate enough vacuum to do that. For that you need an industrial type of vacuum pump and lots of time for the pump to extract every last molecule of air.
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Some things do survive in vaccuums. I believeeeeeeeeee hearing once that someone accidentally sneezed on a lunar lander - and the bacteria survived the round trip to the moon and back. It went into some kind of cyrogenic freezing, I assume, and reanimated.
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