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Keeping Alien Samples Safe For Study

Posted by timothy on from the unless-they're-allergic-to-sterility dept.

Metrollica writes: "Space.com features an article describing NASA's plans to prepare the Johnson Space Center that could one day house extraterrestrial life." An excerpt from the article: "It's human nature to clean for company more thoroughly than one would for oneself, but nowhere is this truth taken to greater extremes than at the Johnson Space Center. NASA's setting new standards of cleanliness in its labs that handle samples returning from space. And their efforts are laying the groundwork for samples that might some day contain evidence of extraterrestrial life from Mars, Europa, and other points little known."

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  1. CowboyNeal... by B00yah · · Score: 2, Funny

    From the lost episode, or just those who are lost, like me, too poor for cable/sattelite :(

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  2. The CowboyNeal Bellweather... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    you can always tell a poll's in trouble when he's got a 60% majority...

  3. Marry him! by sulli · · Score: 2, Funny

    Offtopic, but who cares?

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    1. Re:Marry him! by McD!ck · · Score: 2, Funny

      LOL! In a poll where CowboyNeal is leading, NOTHING is offtopic! ;)

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  4. My favorite... by David+M.+Sweeney · · Score: 5, Funny
    The poll options suck, as usual. My favorite is the backslash, followed closely by ctrl-V.

    Wait, I thought the poll said favorite escape characters. Never mind.

  5. confused for a sec... by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 2, Funny

    I clicked on the 'results' link on the main page expecting to still see the 'marry me' poll, and momentarily thought there was a second incidence of ballot stuffing making CowboyNeal the fiance of the hour...

  6. Re:Farscape by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    you've seen them all... haven't you?

  7. If they find any alien microbe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope they'll organize a televised deathmatch between it and some Earth microbe, seen through a microscope. That'd be cool.

    1. Re:If they find any alien microbe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      They could inject it into you instead for a more interesting death match :>

  8. these preparations are futile... by bovril · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...because as we all know, the first alien brought back to earth from outer space will be a naked hottie with a thirst for human blood. while the security guards are busy ogling her supernaturally luscious boobies, she'll walk straight out the front door and commence her rampage of death and destruction.

    we may as well give up now.

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  9. What happens if we screw up the containment rooms by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 4, Funny

    Zoltar: "Home Planet: these earthlings had a really crappy waiting room. The Nation Geographics were ten years old, they had no dish of candies on the coffee table, and from watching "Nick at Nite" we have determined that the next season of "I Love Lucy" you all have been waiting for is really going to suck. I suggest we destroy their planet now."

  10. Re:Well as far as life on mars goes, by Lars+T. · · Score: 3, Funny
    Do we really know now if life is on mars or not? no air or water on the surface, what about under the surface?? When they drill on mars, or can get a probe to actually land on mars, we will find out.

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