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There is controversial opinion that previous space station MIR was abandoned due to deadly fungi plague spread all over the station
by yanko 3y ago
There is controversial opinion that previous space station MIR was abandoned due to deadly fungi plague spread all over the station
- ceejayoz 3y agoThat's on the inside, though. The ISS has to mitigate mold as well. https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2023/03/29/mold-in-space-the-hidden-danger-astronauts-face/ https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2023/03/29/mold-in-space-the-hidd... has a picture of a wall panel covered in the stuff after astronauts hung damp workout clothes out to dry.
- Loughla 3y agoThat just makes sense. A sealed environment full of human would tend towards fungus.
- ratg13 3y agoThis was on the outside https://www.permaculturenews.org/2017/03/27/aggressive-fungus-found-growing-outer-space/ https://www.permaculturenews.org/2017/03/27/aggressive-fungu...
- ceejayoz 3y agoNo, it wasn't. That's the author misreading their source; see the second paragraph. Nothing in that article supports the first paragraph's assertion.
- ratg13 3y agoI actually hadn't heard of this before and googled it and this was the first article that came up. Thank you for the correction.
- sitkack 3y agoWell it was made out of plywood. Unless they made the wood poisonous to all life, it is also food. And humans basically exhale the rest of what fungi need to thrive. Space is not all that inhospitable to life. There are strong theories that after major cataclysms on earth, rocks in space with life attached then reseeded earth when they came back down.
- euroderf 3y agoI was sorta hoping that radiation would mutate the Mir Fungus into something really catastrophic that would survive Mir's re-entry and then more or less destroy the world. Or at least that someone would have made a really nutso film based on such an idea.