ooli@lemmy.world to Space@lemmy.world · 1 year agoScientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canisterarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1199arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldspaceexploration@sopuli.xyz
arrow-up1198arrow-down1external-linkScientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canisterarstechnica.comooli@lemmy.world to Space@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square24fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldspaceexploration@sopuli.xyz
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down7·1 year agoIt would be a trip if some low-cell organism that humans have No known exposure to and it went viral or bacterial😳
minus-squareDeceptichum@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up20·1 year agoEh it’d soon come into contact with our trillions of different bacteria and viruses living across countless species and promptly die. We have the home-town advantage here.
minus-squaremisterundercoat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoIt would be like saying “Duuuude, what if they sent Chuck Norris to fight Russia?” Answer: He’d get shot immediately and die.
minus-squareJohnDClay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoThat’s one of the reasons they have it in a totally sealed atmosphere. The other more important reason is to make sure anything we find in the sample is actually from the astroid rather than from earth.
minus-squareLegionEris [she/her]@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI’d bet on my immeasurable lactobacillus hoards over a starving, freezing colony of space bacteria any day
It would be a trip if some low-cell organism that humans have No known exposure to and it went viral or bacterial😳
Eh it’d soon come into contact with our trillions of different bacteria and viruses living across countless species and promptly die.
We have the home-town advantage here.
It would be like saying “Duuuude, what if they sent Chuck Norris to fight Russia?”
Answer: He’d get shot immediately and die.
Hope so.
That’s one of the reasons they have it in a totally sealed atmosphere. The other more important reason is to make sure anything we find in the sample is actually from the astroid rather than from earth.
I’d bet on my immeasurable lactobacillus hoards over a starving, freezing colony of space bacteria any day