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m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldM to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Japan's priceless asteroid Ryugu sample got 'rapidly colonized' by Earth bacteria

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Japan's priceless asteroid Ryugu sample got 'rapidly colonized' by Earth bacteria

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m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldM to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago
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"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial contamination."
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    You know what this means? We can give killer asteroids MEASLES when they fly too close.

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    meanwhile on ISS, ‘whats that smell?’

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    Paging anticolonialist.

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    The compromise would be to create a signature biome and allow it to contaminate. And if they find some rock which doesn’t have that signature biome, then it’s probably extraterrestrial.

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