false alarms...contaminating space with our filth

[jverne]

http://www.physorg.com/news131259710.html

Life in outer space is an absolute certainty, and it is likely to be more familiar than we might think, according to an article in the May issue of Microbiology Today. Ever since the start of the space race we have sent more than just satellites and astronauts into space: spacecraft are not routinely decontaminated and are teeming with microbial life.

?Wherever man boldly goes his microbial fauna is sure to follow,? said Lewis Dartnell, an astrobiologist at University College London. The Russian space station Mir was launched in 1986 and microbial studies investigated the diversity of bacteria living alongside the astronauts.

theres no real point in searching for life if we might spawn it by accident.

 

[VirusType2]

that's interesting.

They should have brought a jar of peanut butter with them.

 

[Raziaar]

that's interesting.

They should have brought a jar of peanut butter with them.

 

[Remus]

that's interesting.

They should have brought a jar of peanut butter with them.

"On occasion if you open a jar of peanut butter you should find.. peanut butter..."

 

[MJ12]

Well one things for sure, if intelligent life ever accidentally infects us with a deadly disease because they didn't take time to clean their ship, we can't point fingers.

 

[Remus]

we can't point fingers.

We'll just have to point nukes instead...

 

[hool10]

http://www.doctorzebra.com/drz/s_bathroom.html
Some other pretty nifty facts with the "trip" (or now should we say trip's) to the moon:
http://ira-changs-funhouse.blogspot.com/2006/03/one-small-step.html

 

[Slug Advisor]

"On occasion if you open a jar of peanut butter you should find.. peanut butter..."

"On occasion if you open a jar of peanut butter you should find..." *Godzilla pops out*



Yes, that had been in an actual video. Scared me shitless.

 

[jverne]

In the microgravity environment of space, it is apparently possible to move oneself around by farting. For this and other reasons, the toilet on space station Mir had restraining devices. "The restraining devices also serve to keep the user from being thrust away from the toilet seat when what could tactfully be described as digestive gas thrusters are fired"

well i knew that but it's funny nonetheless

 

[Holy Toaster]

"On occasion if you open a jar of peanut butter you should find..." *Godzilla pops out*



Yes, that had been in an actual video. Scared me shitless.

I want to see this!

The closest i found was someone going "when you open a jar of peanut putter you should see...*charles darwin pops out* BAH EVOLUTION!"