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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. 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...

  2. 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.

  3. 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."