Wherever humans go, our microbes go too. Astronauts on board Mir experienced this first hand. Even thought the spaceship was cleaned as thoroughly as possible before launch, years of human habitation made it a breeding ground for molds and microbes. ...

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If this problem actually gets bad why not just move the astronauts into other vehicles for 72 hours or so and control the heat of the station such that it goes up high enough to kill all the bacteria.

Astronauts are probably the prime carrier of microbes to the Mir. I don't believe it will be possible to deconcaminate astrornauts to a level that they will no longer transport microbes to the Mir on every trip.

I wonder if thse microbes are travelling in zero gravity. After all the space ship and every thing in it is in free fall. Or is it in micro/weak gravity of the space ship itself?

What if they aren't from Earth? Could microbes be hitching rides from space to Earth? NASA has denied evidence of extraterrestrial microbes for almost half a century. Reputable scientists have been systematically descredited for presenting evidence of microbes in meteorites, comets, on the surface of the moon, on Mars, and throughout interstellar space.

For more information read Microbe Sailors of the Starlight in The Anomalist 12:

www.anomalistbooks.com/ta12.html

Also see the an online article about the history of infestations on the Mir station at:

www.anomalist.com/reports/mir.html

Roger Hart

Every human beeing carries 10 times more specimen of bacteriae, fungi and microorganisms on and in him than is the count of his or her body cells. Each of us is in fact a symbiotic system of a vast number of life forms, and we simply can´t live without them. We are designed to live with them: they help us digesting things, they keep us at good health, they defend us against other microorganisms which may try to feed on us, and they simply keep us alive. Without the aid of this force, each of us might die within a few days.

This is a fact of which many people are not aware of. Instead, they anxiously try to disinfect everything they might get in touch with. This behavior is as almost stupid as killing every pipeded organism passing along because killers are bipeded organisms. Some bipeded organisms really are killers, but much more bipeded organisms are police officers, teachers, loving parents, children, students, grandparents, nurses, medics, or flamingos. Therefore, one should take an utmost care to make a difference.

Disinfecting an astronaut and his spacecraft might mean killing him. At least a permanent itching on the skin, dysentery and sickness would be the result of such a treatment. The professional and personal performance of a person with these symptoms would be improper to any type of work in space.

Every person spills 10 million dust particles per minute. This produces the dust we find in our homes, 10 grams per person per day. This applies for every astronaut, too. This dust must be filtered in the life-suporting systems of the craft, and it must be removed in time, to avoid these systems from getting blocked up.

It is essential to build a space station such that it is easy to clean and maintain, and such that its design cannot create locations where hidden condensations of water build up in which dust particles get trapped in, offering microorganisms, fungi and bacteriae a habitat to flourish.
It would be impossible and unfeasible to disinfect an astronaut and his equipment such that such microorganisms, fungi and bacteriae can´t make their way into the station.

Some 95,5% of all life forms on and in earth, and the air, are bacteriae and fungi. The rest of the life forms are all the plants and algae, all the animals, and us.

Regards,

Günther

Every human beeing carries 10 times more specimen of bacteriae, fungi and microorganisms on and in him than is the count of his or her body cells. Each of us is in fact a symbiotic system of a vast number of life forms, and we simply can´t live without them. We are designed to live with them: they help us digesting things, they keep us at good health, they defend us against other microorganisms which may try to feed on us, and they simply keep us alive. Without the aid of this force, each of us might die within a few days.

This is a fact of which many people are not aware of. Instead, they anxiously try to disinfect everything they might get in touch with. This behavior is almost as stupid as killing every pipeded organism passing along, just because killers are bipeded organisms. Some bipeded organisms really are killers, but much more bipeded organisms are police officers, teachers, loving parents, children, students, grandparents, nurses, medics, or flamingos. Therefore, one should take an utmost care to make a difference.

Disinfecting an astronaut and his spacecraft might mean killing him. At least some permanent itching on the skin, frequent dysentery and sickness would be the lasting result of such a treatment. The professional and personal performance of a person with these symptoms would be improper for any type of work in space.

Every person spills 10 million dust particles per minute. This process produces the dust we find in our homes, 10 grams per person per day. This applies for every astronaut, too. This dust must be filtered within the life-suporting systems of the craft, and it must be removed in time, to avoid these systems from getting blocked up. Therefore it should be essential to build a space station such that it is easy to clean and maintain, and such that its design cannot create locations where hidden condensations of water build up in which dust particles get trapped in, offering microorganisms, fungi and bacteriae a habitat to flourish.
It would be impossible and unfeasible to disinfect an astronaut and his equipment such that such microorganisms, fungi and bacteriae can´t make their way into the station.

Some 95,5% of all life forms on and in earth, and the air, are bacteriae and fungi. The rest of the life forms are all the plants and algae, all the animals, and us.

Regards,

Günther

Ok this is kind of confusint...if we are carrieing microbs into space then that proves that life can exist in the vacume of space...but i dont really see the problem with this...can someone let me know why this is a problem other than us looking for life and finding stuff we alredy know about.