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Space fungus is a thing. https://www.space.com/fungus-in-space-long-duration-astronaut-missions https://www.space.com/fungus-in-space-long-duration-astronau...
by jiveturkey 3y ago
Space fungus is a thing.
https://www.space.com/fungus-in-space-long-duration-astronaut-missions https://www.space.com/fungus-in-space-long-duration-astronau...
> In 1988, astronauts aboard the now-retired Russian space station Mir realized that something had blanketed one of their windows — from the outside. [...] This fungi had managed to adapt to the space environment, and so well that it not only survived but thrived on windows, control panels, air conditioners and cable insulators. It even contaminated the crew's precious food and water supply.
Not a one-time event.
- lxgr 3y agoThe ISS goes to great lengths to support life in space – it's just hard to be selective about which types of life. So unless the nanofiches are somehow stuck to the heat exchanger of a secret lunar base or similar, I'd assume that they would go biologically inert (or at least dormant) very quickly.