I have survived outside of the International Space Station my whole life
celsius1414 18 hours ago [-]
If you’ve done so as moss, I salute your ability to use human technology to post!
stevage 1 days ago [-]
Moss spores survived outside. The difference is significant, it's like saying "Banana trees survived in space" when it was just banana seeds...
DANmode 19 hours ago [-]
Banana seeds can’t drive health conditions.
stevenalowe 4 days ago [-]
Moss _spores_, not living moss. Big difference! 80% viable upon return, no mention of quarantine or mutations
griffzhowl 1 days ago [-]
True. I got visions of patches of moss growing on the outside of the ISS
Borg3 1 days ago [-]
Haha, It reminds me some old movie called Andromeda I think... Space human probe crashlanded on earth and contained some greenish patches of stuff on it. It was space dwelling orgamism that direcly used energy to matter conversion for growth. It was pretty decent movie actually :)
IAmBroom 1 days ago [-]
Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton's first big success.
Great movie, but even better book.
rich_sasha 1 days ago [-]
When interviewed, Moss stated: "The ambient emvironment is indeed challenging. But when I think about the toxic political discourse, collapsing rules-based global order and of course, the inevitable temperature increase past 1.5 or even 2 degC above pre-industrial state, I really don't regret my move"
AnonymousPlanet 1 days ago [-]
Moss' psychiatrist had this to say: "Vell, Moss is just zis guy, you know?"
swarnie 1 days ago [-]
Moss has been invited to touch grass.
supportengineer 5 days ago [-]
It lived in a vacuum, in high radiation conditions and with huge temperature fluctuations?
gus_massa 5 days ago [-]
They put spores, that are more resistant to vacuum, lack of humidity, temperature fluctuation. I'm no sure about the radiation level, perhaps the containers were partially hidden by the structure.
If Moss survived outside of the International Space Station for 9 months, then perhaps Moss might be a good candidate to take to the surface of Mars on a future Mars mission...
almosthere 1 days ago [-]
panspermia anyone
jacquesm 1 days ago [-]
Someone stick a bag of moss spores on the next Voyager please.
I know they're doing everything to keep those craft sterile, I think we should go the other way: spread life across the universe while we can.
ashton314 1 days ago [-]
Now we need to selectively breed moss until we have astrophage
NDizzle 1 days ago [-]
What can’t Randy do?!
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Great movie, but even better book.
I know they're doing everything to keep those craft sterile, I think we should go the other way: spread life across the universe while we can.