The Threat From Life on Mars

sweetshot97 writes "According to the UK site, Times Online; future trips to Mars that will have probes return with samples of the martian surface may contain deadly microbes of course, foreign to our world. The threat may be incurable bacterial infections we have no cure for. What's funny is that we may have even infected Mars with our own bacteria when we sent several probes there. "

Comments

Chinese Poetry

[Anonymous Coward]

The grandparent news article has stumbled upon one of the goals that the Chinese are pursuing in the weaponization of space. The Chinese aim to reach Mars within 20 years despite the fact that their economy will not have not reached 1st world status; in short, China will still not be sufficiently wealthy to support this sort of adventure.

So, why would the Chinese pursue it? The reason is that they want to grab a sample of Martian bacteria. It would be an excellent addition to their arensal of biological weapons.

Reality Check

[Simonetta]

This would be a good place to remind all you good clean young suburban Americans yearning for the stars that your country is bankrupt, trillions of dollars in debt to foreign banks, and increasingly hated by billions of people throughout the world because you're unwilling to deal with actual world problems, preferring instead to spend billions of dollars of other people's money on outer space fantasies best left to Hollywood.

Don't worry or concern yourself too much. This is just a standard reality check notice that I add to all Slashdot subjects about the necessity of wasting more and more money on space exploration. You can just ignore it and go back to your space fantasy now.

Don't worry or concern yourself too much. This is just a standard reality check notice that I add to all Slashdot subjects about the necessity of wasting more and more money on space exploration. You can just ignore it and go back to your space fantasy now.