Scientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canister
Scientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canister
"There is some black dust-like material that's visible. We're hoping that's from Bennu."
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It would be a trip if some low-cell organism that humans have No known exposure to and it went viral or bacterial😳
Eh it'd soon come into contact with our trillions of different bacteria and viruses living across countless species and promptly die.
We have the home-town advantage here.
It would be like saying "Duuuude, what if they sent Chuck Norris to fight Russia?"
Answer: He'd get shot immediately and die.
He'd probably still manage to karate kick a few terrified Russian teens holding ww2 rifles before one of the properly provisioned ones get a lucky shot in. Lucky because he wasn't trained well before getting shipped to the front.
Hope so.
That's one of the reasons they have it in a totally sealed atmosphere. The other more important reason is to make sure anything we find in the sample is actually from the astroid rather than from earth.
I'd bet on my immeasurable lactobacillus hoards over a starving, freezing colony of space bacteria any day