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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by orbital-decay on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:57PM (#20309491)
There's also another similar long-term experiment being performed on the International Space Station [0]. It's not finished yet but apparently preliminary results [1] suggest that microorganisms can possibly be lifted into the upper atmosphere from the oceans somehow. They found different planktonic species from all over the world on the outer surface of the space station, which is hard to explain by spacecraft contamination on the ground or during the flight alone.

[0] http://tsniimash.ru/science/scientific-experiments-onboard-t... (in Russian, but Google Translate seems to work okay on this one)

[1] https://www.energia.ru/ktt/archive/2015/01-2015/01-03.pdf

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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by bb88 on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:14PM (#20309597)
An armchair explanation might be that a hurricane or tornado might be able to do this. Water spouts have scooped up fish into the sky only to dump them on land hundreds of miles from shore.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254812/Hundreds-fi...

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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by tonyarkles on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:44PM (#20309771)
In Ben Rich's book about the Skunkworks, one of the aircraft (U2? SR71?) was encountering high-altitude insect impacts on their windshields. Turns out they'd been lofted up there by nuclear tests.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by W-Stool on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:29PM (#20310655)
Absolutely the best book, everyone here should read it.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by tonyarkles on Sunday June 30, 2019 @11:38AM (#20318745)
I think one of the things that still blows my mind is how quickly they went from concept to first flight on the U2 (18 months?). That's the kind of things a well-focused, finely-tuned, well-funded, "cut the bullshit" engineering organization can accomplish.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by baxtr on Saturday June 29, 2019 @01:07AM (#20310907)
Why?
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by baxtr on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:56AM (#20311545)
That was a genuine question... I am really interested in knowing
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by tim333 on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:51AM (#20312901)
Have an Amazon review: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-reviews/R3PX9NZPUHXBI9/...

Sounds pretty good if you like aircraft tech and the like

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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by mathattack on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:23PM (#20314564)
Great book. And this was my guess for the ISS too.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by tim333 on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:47AM (#20312881)
You don't really need a hurricane. A regular thunder storm will lift stuff pretty high and then I guess they would mix with the jet stream and the like.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by throwaway2048 on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:11AM (#20312373)
Provides really interesting evidence for one particular type of panspermia if larger organisms than bacteria are able to enter orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia#Radiopanspermia

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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by adtac on Saturday June 29, 2019 @02:33AM (#20311104)
Interesting. I wonder if some extreme events could have kicked up enough microorganisms that some even went to the moon! That would be a false positive for finding life on the moon.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by Gibbon1 on Saturday June 29, 2019 @02:43AM (#20311144)
I'd make a $5 bet that if they find and sequence life on Mars it'll be not just speciously like archaea but actually archaea.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by pvaldes on Saturday June 29, 2019 @03:27PM (#20314289)
> I wonder if some extreme events could have kicked up enough microorganisms that some even went to the moon!

We could fit 56 planet mars in row in the distance between the moon and the earth, so... not. Really unlikely

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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by credit_guy on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:06PM (#20315769)
Fun little fact: you can fit pretty much exactly all the planets in the Solar system between the Earth and the Moon. More precisely, the eccentricity of the Moon’s orbit is small, about 5.5%. The sum of the diameters of all the planets is a number in the interval between the lowest and highest distance between Moon and Earth, i.e. between 363k km and 405k km.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by perlgeek on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:28AM (#20312445)
We find rocks from the Moon and from Mars[0] on earth, and have reason to believe that small pieces of rock travel from most inner solar system bodies to most others.

I find it totally believable that some micro organisms could survive the ride on such rocks and possibly thrive on other bodies, if the environment is suitable.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite

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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by pvaldes on Saturday June 29, 2019 @03:35PM (#20314339)
Rocks expelled and melted after a collision. If i'm not wrong, none alive or organic would survive on magma. Not even prions.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by jsjohnst on Sunday June 30, 2019 @01:05PM (#20319170)
Depends on how fast the magma cooled. There are life forms which can handle up to 122°C and still actively reproduce. Look up hyperthermophiles for more info.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by pvaldes on Monday July 01, 2019 @04:34AM (#20323486)
When the magma has cooled enough the rock would be in space or in the upper mars atmosphere at least, not touching anything.

Anything growing on mars surface would burn, only an hypothetical floating microbe could land in this rock after cooling, but would be like expecting a bacteria landing in a bullet, surviving the impact and then sticking to the surface whereas still alive (and much later surviving a second impact against earth after years in outer space). Seems unprobable.

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