this the most complete summary i could find about of the whole shebang... I admit there's a lot of FUD from the alarmists, but nothing in there tells me the threat is zero risk.
http://www.anomalist.com/reports/mir.html
Virus 2: The Real Story of the 'Mir' Threat
By Igor Popov
In a Hollywood blockbuster, the Russian orbital station "Mir," having fallen into the Pacific Ocean, threatens mankind with a terrible virus that it has brought in from the space.
It is interesting that in 2001 a similar chilling plot moved from science fiction to the news. Shortly before the Russian space pride found its last resort in the Pacific waters, both Russian and western media started to scare their readers with the frightening reports about "the Mir danger." The alarm was caused by nothing else but. . . a virus!
To be more precise--viruses. And some other tiny organisms that occupied the station while it carried out its space duty. The character of these creatures was as malicious as the galactic monsters of science fiction.
According to the specialists from the Russian Academic Institute of Micro-Biological Problems, which took part in the Mir space research, the first microorganisms--bacteria and fungi--were found right after the station was placed into the orbit 16 years ago. They were carried on board together with the space cargo. Although both the space shuttles and the cargo had to undergo a thorough anti-bacterial test, complete sterilization was impossible.
Throughout Mir's life in space, the number of microorganisms grew continuously, one generation replacing another every 20-30 minutes. If in 1990 there were registered 94 species, in 2001 they numbered 140. But the real problem was not the species increasing in number but their growing aggressiveness: each new generation seemed to be more ferocious than the last.
Although the people who worked on the station suffered no serious harm (at least, if we believe the Russian Space Committee's official statements), the uninvited guests still gave the cosmonauts a lot of trouble.
Penetrating into every single corner of the station, they showed an enormous appetite and demonstrated their capacity to eat up even highly durable materials. A vivid example of the bacteria's' "outrage" is illustrated by what happened to the window of a transportation spacecraft that docked to Mir when piloted by its last crew. Some time after docking, the cosmonauts' attention was drawn to the rapidly deteriorating window glass. It was covered by a strange film, spreading "as quickly as in the horror movies," and became absolutely non-transparent.
The test results raised the researchers' eyebrows. It turned out the quartz glass and the titan, which framed it, were damaged by a large colony of bacteria. As experts explained later, these microorganisms exuded a metabolism product--an acid so strong that it could easily corrode the window the creatures had settled on.
Besides this case, which rightfully belongs in the microbiology textbooks, the little angry bacteria more than once ate up the metallic casing and destroyed the equipment on board the station. Their next victim was the control panel of a communication device, in which the parasites devoured the whole insulation. When the astronauts Anatoly Solovyev and Pavel Vinogradov sent the device down to the earth, one could see that it was entirely green inside!
These dangerous activities of the Mir microorganisms worried specialists. In the spring of 2001, about a month before it was clear that Mir would come crashing down to Earth, a press representative of Russia's Microbiological Institute Dmitry Malashenkov, in his interview with the newspaper Gazeta.Ru. put it straightforwardly that he did not know how the bacteria would behave after Mir's re-entry. He also confirmed that they posed a danger to the integrity of the station's hull.
Not less alarming were the rumors about 94 kinds of Mir bacteria being pathogenic and able to cause human diseas
you dont need to have escapist lab-made "lifeforms" to be scared like this...
remember the space station MIR and its colony of cosmic-ray mutated microbes that was eating it from inside out (including the quartz windows)?
there's a strong possibility that some of those nasties survived re-entry and are now thriving somewhere in the Pacific.
i submit that the toothpaste has been squeezed out of the tube already, so we might as well kick evolution in the butt and introduce as much new life as possible and sit and watch what happens.
i practice shaolin kungfu. it does help with stress relief.
my teacher is also pretty big on "traditional" body conditioning, especially the fingers, hands and forearms... maybe it's a coincidence, but I dont have the problems a lot of my coworkers have in terms of cramps and carpal tunnel syndrome.
it also helps that he has a very effective dit da jow recipe too.
nothing beats the stress out of you more than imagining that the mook jong is your PHB and beating the hell out of it til your knuckles bleed and your forearm bones feel like rubber.
that and racing your friends with forward-jumping pushups on the knuckles on a cement floor.
by that rationale, you can just dismiss humans as a footnote in the solar system's history.
moreover, the whole "ecological" movement can also be shown as a frivolous endeavour, since at some point in the future, the Sun is going to bake this planet dry, then swallow it and blow apart in a supernova.
come to think of it, why are we doing all this science crap? why do we go to work?
nihilist homeless bums are starting to look damn smart now, dont they?//rant
one big reason why so many people are alarmed by global change is real estate.
a lot of people have a lot of money in it. and consider how high the price of beach-front properties are...
as a side note, speaking of hot weather... www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editoria ls/2004-04-2 1-our-view_x.htm I'm going to be keeping a lot of emergency ice in my freezer this summer.
there are those people (not me, some "friends" i know) who use photo and video enhancing software to see if they can catch a glimpse of the other set of lips.
"SCO's management, he said, was traveling too much and spending too much when it should have been concentrating its efforts and resources on its legal strategy."
nice. money for nothin, but does he get the chicks for free?
Slashdot Mirror
more like:
imdb.com/title/tt0084787/
heh
ok then, here's a space.com story about it with some photos...
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www.space.com/news/spacestation/space_fungus_00
adjust the url after copypasting it in your browser
this the most complete summary i could find about of the whole shebang... I admit there's a lot of FUD from the alarmists, but nothing in there tells me the threat is zero risk.
http://www.anomalist.com/reports/mir.html
Virus 2: The Real Story of the 'Mir' Threat
By Igor Popov
In a Hollywood blockbuster, the Russian orbital station "Mir," having fallen into the Pacific Ocean, threatens mankind with a terrible virus that it has brought in from the space.
It is interesting that in 2001 a similar chilling plot moved from science fiction to the news. Shortly before the Russian space pride found its last resort in the Pacific waters, both Russian and western media started to scare their readers with the frightening reports about "the Mir danger." The alarm was caused by nothing else but. . . a virus!
To be more precise--viruses. And some other tiny organisms that occupied the station while it carried out its space duty. The character of these creatures was as malicious as the galactic monsters of science fiction.
According to the specialists from the Russian Academic Institute of Micro-Biological Problems, which took part in the Mir space research, the first microorganisms--bacteria and fungi--were found right after the station was placed into the orbit 16 years ago. They were carried on board together with the space cargo. Although both the space shuttles and the cargo had to undergo a thorough anti-bacterial test, complete sterilization was impossible.
Throughout Mir's life in space, the number of microorganisms grew continuously, one generation replacing another every 20-30 minutes. If in 1990 there were registered 94 species, in 2001 they numbered 140. But the real problem was not the species increasing in number but their growing aggressiveness: each new generation seemed to be more ferocious than the last.
Although the people who worked on the station suffered no serious harm (at least, if we believe the Russian Space Committee's official statements), the uninvited guests still gave the cosmonauts a lot of trouble.
Penetrating into every single corner of the station, they showed an enormous appetite and demonstrated their capacity to eat up even highly durable materials. A vivid example of the bacteria's' "outrage" is illustrated by what happened to the window of a transportation spacecraft that docked to Mir when piloted by its last crew. Some time after docking, the cosmonauts' attention was drawn to the rapidly deteriorating window glass. It was covered by a strange film, spreading "as quickly as in the horror movies," and became absolutely non-transparent.
The test results raised the researchers' eyebrows. It turned out the quartz glass and the titan, which framed it, were damaged by a large colony of bacteria. As experts explained later, these microorganisms exuded a metabolism product--an acid so strong that it could easily corrode the window the creatures had settled on.
Besides this case, which rightfully belongs in the microbiology textbooks, the little angry bacteria more than once ate up the metallic casing and destroyed the equipment on board the station. Their next victim was the control panel of a communication device, in which the parasites devoured the whole insulation. When the astronauts Anatoly Solovyev and Pavel Vinogradov sent the device down to the earth, one could see that it was entirely green inside!
These dangerous activities of the Mir microorganisms worried specialists. In the spring of 2001, about a month before it was clear that Mir would come crashing down to Earth, a press representative of Russia's Microbiological Institute Dmitry Malashenkov, in his interview with the newspaper Gazeta.Ru. put it straightforwardly that he did not know how the bacteria would behave after Mir's re-entry. He also confirmed that they posed a danger to the integrity of the station's hull.
Not less alarming were the rumors about 94 kinds of Mir bacteria being pathogenic and able to cause human diseas
you dont need to have escapist lab-made "lifeforms" to be scared like this...
remember the space station MIR and its colony of cosmic-ray mutated microbes that was eating it from inside out (including the quartz windows)?
there's a strong possibility that some of those nasties survived re-entry and are now thriving somewhere in the Pacific.
i submit that the toothpaste has been squeezed out of the tube already, so we might as well kick evolution in the butt and introduce as much new life as possible and sit and watch what happens.
survival of the fittest at 11!
i practice shaolin kungfu. it does help with stress relief.
my teacher is also pretty big on "traditional" body conditioning, especially the fingers, hands and forearms... maybe it's a coincidence, but I dont have the problems a lot of my coworkers have in terms of cramps and carpal tunnel syndrome.
it also helps that he has a very effective dit da jow recipe too.
nothing beats the stress out of you more than imagining that the mook jong is your PHB and beating the hell out of it til your knuckles bleed and your forearm bones feel like rubber.
that and racing your friends with forward-jumping pushups on the knuckles on a cement floor.
I dont even have a girlfriend you insensitive clod!
(but I do have a hot date tonight; wish me luck)
yea, but bombs leave more traces than infrared laser beams.
slippery slope how? unless we invent interstellar travel, we have a finite shelflife here.
by that rationale, you can just dismiss humans as a footnote in the solar system's history.
//rant
moreover, the whole "ecological" movement can also be shown as a frivolous endeavour, since at some point in the future, the Sun is going to bake this planet dry, then swallow it and blow apart in a supernova.
come to think of it, why are we doing all this science crap? why do we go to work?
nihilist homeless bums are starting to look damn smart now, dont they?
one big reason why so many people are alarmed by global change is real estate.
a ls/2004-04-2 1-our-view_x.htm
a lot of people have a lot of money in it. and consider how high the price of beach-front properties are...
as a side note, speaking of hot weather...
www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editori
I'm going to be keeping a lot of emergency ice in my freezer this summer.
there are those people (not me, some "friends" i know) who use photo and video enhancing software to see if they can catch a glimpse of the other set of lips.
not to mention that the onboard computer has to agree to open the pod bay door...
Scott Evil did it!
"Which leads to the question: what other stuff could they zap with this?"
Enemy fuel supplies.
not to nitpick, but i think light stops being light past the infrared threshold...
unless radiation going in both directions of the spectrum past the UV and IR are also still considered "light"?
well, give the guy some credit, he also took the time to make a bogus 404 page down the tree... at www.khaaan.com/index.htm
www.khaaan.com
if anyone knows, it's these guys here:
www.8trackheaven.com
I love vinyl... and believe me, the only thing that will make vinyl come back is when those vinyl turntables with a laser reader come down in price
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable
8,000$ is just not within my disposable budget.
that's why I bought the Unreal Tournament 2004 Special Punchcard Edition.
a /U T04-PunchCard.gif
http://img53.photobucket.com/albums/v162/Cordat
As long as I keep them in a dark and dry place, it's going to last forever!
Chemtrails, CIA mindcontrol, UFOs, Bigfoot, and now CDRs...
Do I have to wrap my por^H^H data archives in tinfoil now as well?
"SCO's management, he said, was traveling too much and spending too much when it should have been concentrating its efforts and resources on its legal strategy."
nice. money for nothin, but does he get the chicks for free?
that'll teach them!
so, if I followed your explanations correctly, that means we could theoretically write data on a hard-drive BEFORE we actually transmit it?
(note: I just wrote this after reading the DeLorean time machine replica thread)
already been done, by Epic, in Unreal Tournament 2004.
goatse-like 3D structure screenshot hosted on a website not safe for work