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Moss survived outside of the International Space Station for 9 months
- supportengineer 1y agoIt lived in a vacuum, in high radiation conditions and with huge temperature fluctuations?
- gus_massa 1y agoThey put spores, that are more resistant to vacuum, lack of humidity, temperature fluctuation. I'm no sure about the radiation level, perhaps the containers were partially hidden by the structure.
- stevenalowe 1y agoMoss _spores_, not living moss. Big difference! 80% viable upon return, no mention of quarantine or mutations
- griffzhowl 1y agoTrue. I got visions of patches of moss growing on the outside of the ISS
- Borg3 1y agoHaha, It reminds me some old movie called Andromeda I think... Space human probe crashlanded on earth and contained some greenish patches of stuff on it. It was space dwelling orgamism that direcly used energy to matter conversion for growth. It was pretty decent movie actually :)
- IAmBroom 1y agoAndromeda Strain, Michael Crichton's first big success. Great movie, but even better book.
- mkl 1y agoRelated discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011978 2 days ago, 69 comments.
- almosthere 1y agopanspermia anyone
- rich_sasha 1y agoWhen interviewed, Moss stated: "The ambient emvironment is indeed challenging. But when I think about the toxic political discourse, collapsing rules-based global order and of course, the inevitable temperature increase past 1.5 or even 2 degC above pre-industrial state, I really don't regret my move"
- AnonymousPlanet 1y agoMoss' psychiatrist had this to say: "Vell, Moss is just zis guy, you know?"
- swarnie 1y agoMoss has been invited to touch grass.
- jacquesm 1y agoSomeone stick a bag of moss spores on the next Voyager please. I know they're doing everything to keep those craft sterile, I think we should go the other way: spread life across the universe while we can.
- stevage 1y agoMoss spores survived outside. The difference is significant, it's like saying "Banana trees survived in space" when it was just banana seeds...
- DANmode 11mo agoBanana seeds can’t drive health conditions.
- bhokbah 1y agoI have survived outside of the International Space Station my whole life
- celsius1414 11mo agoIf you’ve done so as moss, I salute your ability to use human technology to post!
- NDizzle 1y agoWhat can’t Randy do?!
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- ashton314 1y agoNow we need to selectively breed moss until we have astrophage
- peter_d_sherman 11mo agoIf Moss survived outside of the International Space Station for 9 months, then perhaps Moss might be a good candidate to take to the surface of Mars on a future Mars mission...