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    10 months ago

    nasa sure puts a lot of effort into it… can’t say i feel confident about other countries that crash into it…
    on top of that, nasa has recently found that they’ve been breeding bacteria that lives off of their disinfectant, and so no they don’t already control for that.

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      10 months ago

      Mars is inhabited by robots, but the Moon is inhabited by tardigrades because China crashed a lander.

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        10 months ago

        this one?

        Sad news for the tardigrades that were on board Israel’s Beresheet mission, which crash-landed on the Moon in 2019. Researchers have learnt that the microscopic animals, which can survive the vacuum of space and heavy-duty doses of radiation, wouldn’t have lived through the crash.

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          Wrong country and wrong outcome, I really nailed it. Given how hardy they are, I can’t say I’m convinced they’re all dead. Not that they’d actually be active without air and water