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Life
2017 · Film · 104 min
Directed by Daniel Espinosa
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
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Sounds like the beginning of the space horror film "Life"
Not exactly the same concept, but Life (2017) [1] comes close.
[1] https://letterboxd.com/film/life-2017/
>"In some science fiction movies (for example "Life", "The Green Slime") the alien life forms grow incredibly fast. If that works or is possible, it makes one wonder why no terrestrial life-form didn't adapt a similar strategy."
Really? Bacteria can divide every twenty minutes and human T-cells once per hour. Lets say you've got one bacteria cell living in your pipes at midnight, by the next day you could have up to 2^(3*24) = 4.722366e+21 cells. At 1e-15 kg per cell[1], that would be 4,722,366 kg worth of them.
The limiting factor is food, not ability to divide.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28mass%29
In some science fiction movies (for example "Life", "The Green Slime") the alien life forms grow incredibly fast. If that works or is possible, it makes one wonder why no terrestrial life-form didn't adapt a similar strategy. In the above movies the fast life-form in question does come from a dead planet (the probable outcome of such strategy, but not really something evolution has enough time to select against).
If the movie Life were real, and Earth were the planet being sampled, those cuddly beasts would kill with their cuteness.
Clearly they didn't see the movie Life.