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TIL: We Could Give Mars Our “Cooties” | Today I Learned ctm magazine
Catching “cooties”—it’s not just fodder for playground politics. What if a single hair on your head, the oils on your fingertips, or one of the thousands of droplets of saliva you expel each time you cough had the potential to jeopardize a multibillion-dollar interplanetary mission?
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Catching “cooties”—it’s not just fodder for playground politics. What if a single hair on your head, the oils on your fingertips, or one of the thousands of droplets of saliva you expel each time you cough had the potential to jeopardize a multibillion-dollar interplanetary mission? This fear hits far too close to home for every NASA scientist who helps build the Mars rovers or any other instrument destined for outer space.
Mars hasn’t received an “Earth vaccine,” so if too much earthly biological material gets transferred from the scientists to the rovers to Mars, those Earth germs could have devastating effects—not only on the success of NASA’s missions but to the red planet as a whole.
NASA mechanical engineer Kobie Boykins, who helped design all four rovers that have landed on Mars, explains how we could infect Mars and what precautions NASA takes against doing so, and he reminds us what happened in the past when scientists didn’t keep their “”cooties”” to themselves.
Read more about making Mars home in the latest issue of National Geographic magazine and watch MARS, the global event series on National Geographic.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/11/spacex-elon-musk-exploring-mars-planets-space-science/
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Niceee
Cool
That's pretty cool
This guys voice sounds like Vince Vaughn
Humans can't even protect their own planet. and now trying so hard to convince us we can make life on a dead planet? LOL. LOL.
I loved it
yes yes well maybe
the government already has aliens living there
intresting
I could watch this guy talk all day.
let me show you how democracy works. guns, germs, and steel.
Was this made by Buzzfeed?
When the rocket will be launched and it's in the launch pad, from then till it's in the earth's atmosphere, isn't there a chance of "contamination" ? If yes how will those be eliminated ? If no, please explain.
this is all a hoax
Funny thing is NASA is dragging its ass in actually seeking out Mars life. It is quite capable of building a rover now to detect existing life and or fossil bacteria on Mars but keeps putting off that mission. Many already belief Mars has life right now or did have life and more than likely Mars life infected the Earth (through material exchange) so all of us here are in fact the progeny of Mars. But NASA is fairly certain it will find life on Mars, but wants to milk its budget to the max by delaying that important mission for many years into the future.
people that think life is unique to earth can go watch my intro for 1 hour long
Wouldn't that be a good thing to bring our life to mars?
cool scientist 🙂
Well.. it's pretty clear we're like cosmic aids.. we're destroying our planet's immune system, and now we're looking to infect the next host.
We are more likely to catch cooties from whatever microbes may still be alive as they have survived under extreme cosmic conditions, including radiation and been strengthened by this extremely harsh environment.
yeah.. but wed still find the dead bodies.. so wed still figure it out after. so whatever 🙂
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Here is a novel idea…lets make life on Earth better and STOP destroying the environment here where pollinators aren't dying en mass!!!!
Seems like everyone you bring in you give cooties to.
Even if we found life on Mars it most likely wouldn't prove a second genesis which is what we actually need to find to change humanity's perspective in the universe.
Great!! 🙂
This programme should be restarted