Interesting Links for 14-01-2015

[andrewducker]

• 3 Dead After Cadbury’s Creme Egg Protest Turns Violent In Dublin
  (tags: chocolate satire funny )
• Charlize Theron Negotiates $10M Raise After Sony Hack Reveals Male Costar Was To Be Paid Millions More
  (tags: movies money sony hacking patriarchy women )
• The Apollo missions left 96 bags of bodily fluids on the moon
  (tags: moon space faeces urination

Comments

Moon Waste Products

[danieldwilliam]

Do we know what the likelihood of the bacteria in the human waste on the Moon surviving a leak and becoming native is?

Re: Moon Waste Products

[andrewducker]

Good question. My first thought is "Exposure to vacuum would be nigh-instantly lethal".

But I don't actually know - and it seems that some of them can survive a considerable time in space:
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/6877/20140503/bacteria-survive-space-travel-iss-research-shows.htm

Re: Moon Waste Products

[danieldwilliam]

There does seem a big change from bug evolved to live in dark, moist, conditions full of food at about 38 degrees centigrade to living in vacuum, in full sunlight, with no food at temperatures between minus a lot and plus a lot.

Re: Moon Waste Products

[supergee]

It suggests a theory of where life on Earth came from.

Re: Moon Waste Products

[andrewducker]

I'm sure I've read that in a sci-fi story at one point!

[danieldwilliam]

There is an early sci-fi story where a single astronaut is the survivor of an astronomical radiation event and deliberately exposes himself to give bugs a chance.

[octopoid_horror]

Stephen Baxter does this too in a short story.

[nancylebov]

"Adam and No Eve" was something of the sort. The human race is gone (nuclear war?), but the bacteria from the last survivor (a pilot?) will cause life to continue.

[danieldwilliam]

That might be the one I'm remembering.

It was decades ago that I read it.