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The Threat From Life on Mars

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the mars-need-women dept.

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. "

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  1. i have to say it.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First pox! :)

    1. Re:i have to say it.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      its so funny, i have to laugh

  2. Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I for one welcome our incurable bacteria that we have no cure for. Or something.

    Did I mess that up?

  3. by god by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    OMG OMG OMG OMFG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

    But really. We're all going to die now.

  4. A bit of economics by tjstork · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We owe trillions of dollars to foreign banks, but that's right, they are in -dollars-. Because the USA is the dumping ground for the world's manufactured goods, world nations HAVE to lend us the money or otherwise we would simply not be able to buy their stuff. If, for example, China refused to lend us dollars, we in turn could refuse to buy their manufactured goods. While we could certainly do without Chinese products, and WalMart for that matter, the Chinese certainly could not do without us.

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  5. Re:Reality Check by Scaba · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, anyone who wants to live on welfare paid for by hard-working true Americans (mostly in left-leaning blue states) needs only to move to a morally-superior red state.

  6. Re:Kidnapping of Westerners by Peaceful_Patriot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or perhaps the murder of dozens of prisoners during torture at Abu Gharib:

    But it's different for Christian religious zealots. Jesus is on our side!

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  7. Re:Odds Are Against It by Rubyflame · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So should dictionaries also list words like rediculous, definately, and yuo? And should it's be listed as the possessive form of it? Should their, there, and they're all be interchangeable? That would reflect common usage, after all.

    Certainly people understand what is meant by rediculous, so confusion is not an issue. But we already have a correct way to spell that word: ridiculous. Similarly, virus already has a plural: viruses. Virii doesn't even make sense, and a lot more people would be confused by virii than by viruses.

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