Beer microbes live 553 days outside ISS

BBC ^ | August 23, 2010 | Jonathan Amos

[decimon]

Space travel ping.

[Cowboy Bob]

I prefer microbe Beer to anything that Anheuser Busch produces! :0)

[tlb]

Artists conception of the experiment's end result

[billorites]

[Bringbackthedraft]

Ah ha, so there is beer in heaven.

[Quix]

THX THX.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

What a misleading and disappointing headline. The microbes weren't beer but from a place called Beer.

[dangus]

Anyone figure the editor is chuckling to himself, “Ha! Made you look!”?

[CharlesWayneCT]

So they took microbes, attached them to the unsheilded outside of a space station, let them be irradiated for a year, and brought them back to earth, where they are now being coddled at a research facility.

No, no way this can turn out bad. :-)

[Islander7]

No, no way this can turn out bad. :-)

Actually, this is the best argument for NOT bringing soil samples from Mars.

The Russians have a mission planned to do just that from Phobos.

Russia Delays Phobos-Grunt Mars Mission Until 2011

[SunkenCiv]

I hope this doesn't trigger an alestorm.

In Heaven There Is No Beer.

Thanks decimon. Panspermia ping!

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[OldDeckHand]

I wonder how many billions it cost the US taxpayer to establish that fact.

[KevinDavis]

[KevinDavis]

Actually the fears are overblown..

[Daffynition]

[BenLurkin]

Panspermia bump

[markman46]

why do you think US taxpayers payed for this experiment

[OldDeckHand]

"why do you think US taxpayers payed for this experiment "

It happened outside the International Space Station. Who do you think is the largest single economic supporter of the ISS? The US Taxpayer. Although there are five primary owners of the station, and another dozen contributors, the US has EASILY born the lion's share of the financial burden.

I think the US taxpayer paid for it precisely because the US taxpayer paid for it.

[Islander7]

Actually the fears are overblown..

And you know this how? Are you sure Mars is sterile? Of course not.

It is a foolish endeavor to bring material from a planet that may harbor life in some form. You may trust the Russians or Chinese to 'do it right'. I certainly don't.