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A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon(2019)
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#12> Spivack was faced with a distressing question: Did he just smear the toughest animal in the known universe across the surface of the moon?
No, the Israelis did, if the container was breached, which it may not have been
edit: I’m curious what’s inaccurate about this answer, thats what the article says
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#13I had pointed out similar concerns a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051857
At this point it’s more an experiment on the limitations that these creatures can be pushed to in the Lunar environment.
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#14The title needs (2019) I thought the news felt like a deja-vu
Lol fair, done.
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#16Don’t we have some sort of agreement to keep planetary biospheres clear of earth organisms?
It's explained in the article: > Fortunately for Spivack and the Arch Mission Foundation, spewing DNA and water bears across the moon is totally legal. NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection classifies missions based on the likelihood that their targets are of interest to our understanding of life. As such, missions destined for places like Mars are subject to more stringent sterilization processes than missions to th…
They were however more cautious about what the Apollo astronauts might bring back from the moon. IIRC they were quarantined for a period of time after returning, at least on the early missions.
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#17I had pointed out similar concerns a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051857 At this point it’s more an experiment on the limitations that these creatures can be pushed to in the Lunar environment.
"Concern" ?
It may spread life to other planets and systems, and this would mean that life has higher chance of survival no matter if humans are here or not.
If we look over the next 10 thousand years, we have more chances to have the planet survivability highly affected by a nuclear war, than to have tardigrades secretly building a spaceship and attacking us back in Space Wars style.
It's great if plants and animals spread to other planets, those who can survive will survive, and the others may mutate or adapt.
In the long-term, contamination is going to happen anyway due to humans planning to live there.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's explained in the article: > Fortunately for Spivack and the Arch Mission Foundation, spewing DNA and water bears across the moon is totally legal. NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection classifies missions based on the likelihood that their targets are of interest to our understanding of life. As such, missions destined for places like Mars are subject to more stringent sterilization processes than missions to th…
what if the water bears made their way to the bags of feces and started to grow inside there. If the bags serves as a terrarium that produces oxygen from anaerobic microbes via photosynthesis.
I would watch that film. Great origin story for a new world, once Earth is wiped out
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#19I had pointed out similar concerns a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051857 At this point it’s more an experiment on the limitations that these creatures can be pushed to in the Lunar environment.
"Concern" ? It may spread life to other planets and systems, and this would mean that life has higher chance of survival no matter if humans are here or not. If we look over the next 10 thousand years, we have more chances to have the planet survivability highly affected by a nuclear war, than to have tardigrades secretly building a spaceship and attacking us back in Space Wars style. It's great if plants and animals…
I mean, I get the enthusiasm for leaving the shit-heap marble we all collectively share with each other. But it would be a pretty embarrassing faux-pas to start introducing invasive species to the moon before we even understand what exactly lives on it.
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#20I had pointed out similar concerns a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051857 At this point it’s more an experiment on the limitations that these creatures can be pushed to in the Lunar environment.
"Concern" ? It may spread life to other planets and systems, and this would mean that life has higher chance of survival no matter if humans are here or not. If we look over the next 10 thousand years, we have more chances to have the planet survivability highly affected by a nuclear war, than to have tardigrades secretly building a spaceship and attacking us back in Space Wars style. It's great if plants and animals…
The concern isn't Earth organisms evolving and attacking us.
The concern is they'll make it harder to detect potential life on other planets (because of false positives) or even that they'll destroy alien life if it exists.