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a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> writes:

> from
> https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fungal-strains-space-spark-worry-112456504.html
>
> Fungal strains in space spark worry
> Tom Chivers
> Thu, May 7, 2026 at 4:24 AM PDT
> 1 min read
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> NASA found fungal strains that survive even its most stringent
> sterilization efforts, suggesting Earth microbes may already be living
> on Mars.
>
> When exploring worlds which could plausibly harbor life — Enceladus,
> Europa, Mars, Titan — space agencies employ protocols to prevent
> Earth-based microbes contaminating any biology elsewhere.
>
> The existence of near-unkillable fungi makes future Mars rover
> missions more fraught and past ones potential seeds of terrestrial
> life on the red planet. Titan may likewise be compromised: When
> visited by the Cassini-Huygens orbiter in 2004, no one realized
> Saturn’s moon had liquid oceans and was thus a promising candidate for
> life, so the probe was not fully sterilized. The little spacecraft
> “might be seeding life,” a mission scientist told Flagship’s Tom in
> 2017.

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Clickbait.

NASA now fears that there are frozen microbes of fungi on our
probes. I'm going to shit myself in fear. I swear clickbait articles are
getting worse by the day.

--
Daniel
sysop  | air & wave bbs
finger | calcmandan@bbs.erb.pw

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Fungal strains in space spark worry - we might have already contaminated -- a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-07 08:53 -0700
  Re: Fungal strains in space spark worry - we might have already contaminated -- "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-05-07 13:47 -0400
    Re: Fungal strains in space spark worry - we might have already contaminated -- Kualinar <kuakinar@videotron.ca> - 2026-05-07 18:11 -0400
  Re: Fungal strains in space spark worry - we might have already contaminated -- Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-05-08 03:04 -0700
    Re: Fungal strains in space spark worry - we might have already contaminated -- "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-05-08 08:53 -0400
      Re: Fungal strains in space spark worry - we might have already contaminated -- "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-05-08 10:58 -0400
        Re: Fungal strains in space spark worry - we might have already contaminated -- Kualinar <kuakinar@videotron.ca> - 2026-05-08 12:31 -0400
          Re: Fungal strains in space spark worry - we might have already contaminated -- "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-05-08 13:17 -0400
            Re: Fungal strains in space spark worry - we might have already contaminated -- "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-05-09 12:42 -0400
          Re: Fungal strains in space spark worry - we might have already contaminated -- a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-09 13:53 -0700
            Re: Fungal strains in space spark worry - we might have already contaminated -- "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-05-09 19:07 -0400
            Re: Fungal strains in space spark worry - we might have already contaminated -- "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-05-09 20:32 -0400
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