NEWS: More Terror From Outer Space

You and DG are worse than raising the terror alert level.

I'm going to go hide in my closet until everyone else is killed by space germs...

Or space trilobytes...

Or Cthulhu...

This is a bad month for me.

personally I find this funny. Idiot scientists just go and do the dumbest shit without thinking. I mean ok, if no risks are taken, no breakthroughs will happen but... c'mon

allright...bacteria sent to space get's worse..here's a thought..DON'T FUCKING SEND BACTERIA INTO OUTER SPACE.

straight up

I, for one, welcome our new extraterrestrial microbial overlords.

Given that limited, semi-permanent colonization of space is a realistic possibility within our lifetimes, it doesn't seem particularly dumb to test the effects of space on viruses, bacteria, germs, et al. In fact, it would seem particularly dumb NOT to do so.

Yes, yes, of course, because hypotheses that take months (years?) to craft and NASA funding "(dumb) shit without thinking."

Flux' no doubt electrifying tongue being lodged firmly in her cheek aside, please let's not all ramp up the "O NOES SCIENCE BAD" hysteria any. It's not as if these bacteria escaped.





...THAT WE KNOW OF.

I'm now changing my porn star name to "Ebola Zaire".

I have two comments on this subject.


Cosmic rays even work on bacteria! I, personally, would not want to fact a bacteria that can light itself on fucking fire and then shoot that fucking fire at me! Oh god, please do not send gonorrhea into space!


Also

I, for one, welcome our new captain trips overlords!

...Actually they did escape, and that's the very reason the Sci Fi channel inflicted Steven King's, "The Stand" marathon upon it's viewers (because Sci Fi is in the "know" didn't you know?) Yes that's right next time you get the flu it's the super virus for you!

And then they will adapt to the ethanol, and the they will be Drunken Killer Space Bugs!

Seriously, if lame shit like this keeps us from colonizing the stars, I'm gonna be severely pissed.

Why do they do this instead of injecting rapists and child molesters with this shit? That would be a better way to judge how the HUMAN body would react to it, wouldn't you think? And yes, I'm well aware of the whole "Cruel and unusual punishment" thing, but personally, I don't think there is such a thing for people like that.
I know, I'm a sick twisted individual....At least I'm succeeding in my purpose here.

just for that, I'd be a fan !

The funny thing about all of this is that it's become fodder for bacterial comic-books. If you look really, really close at the space-salmonella, one strain can light itself on fire, one can become invisible, one is made of microbial rock, and one can stretch itself reeeeeal thin and long... I mean, like, thin and long even for bacteria.

Here on Earth, Jesus saves. But who is going to save us from the terrors of outer-space?

...L. Ron Hubbard?

Quick, someone call up Tom Cruise! We need consultation!

The site is fucked up, yo.

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holy shit space AIDS

I'm gonna get some salt water prepared in case the Triffods appear, as for space germs...orange juice will save us.

Meh, sterilizing everything around us is what kills any resistance we might have to such things anyway.

Project Scoop?

Crichton thought up that plot decades ago.

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How long do you think it will be until our gubment makes it a weapon?

I'd say 1988ish.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094761/

You know, this article made me wonder... If and when we finally have close encounters of the third kind I sincerely hope we've learned from the mistakes made in our past. When explorers, carrying smallpox and such, came in contact with native populations they wiped out a good portion of them with diseases. Add super space viruses into the equation and it'll be genocide! Lets hope they're less technically advanced like the native americans were so they can't take revenge

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Then again, if we kill them all maybe they'll have something worth pillaging

Imagician said:
You know, this article made me wonder... If and when we finally have close encounters of the third kind I sincerely hope we've learned from the mistakes made in our past. When explorers, carrying smallpox and such, came in contact with native populations they wiped out a good portion of them with diseases. Add super space viruses into the equation and it'll be genocide! Lets hope they're less technically advanced like the native americans were so they can't take revenge

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Then again, if we kill them all maybe they'll have something worth pillaging

Who do you think astronauts are going to go to with their spacebugs? "They" is us!

But now we know. Yay science.

Imagician said:
You know, this article made me wonder... If and when we finally have close encounters of the third kind I sincerely hope we've learned from the mistakes made in our past. When explorers, carrying smallpox and such, came in contact with native populations they wiped out a good portion of them with diseases. Add super space viruses into the equation and it'll be genocide! Lets hope they're less technically advanced like the native americans were so they can't take revenge

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Then again, if we kill them all maybe they'll have something worth pillaging

How do we know their space diseases won't be killing US?