So this is something I’m not sure on the physics of… but if Mars-rocks can end up on Earth (potentially forward-contaminating Earth); can the same thing happen the other way, or is that something that pretty much only happens with material moving inward in the solar system?
So this is something I’m not sure on the physics of… but if Mars-rocks can end up on Earth (potentially forward-contaminating Earth); can the same thing happen the other way, or is that something that pretty much only happens with material moving inward in the solar system?
As long the conditions on Mars favor the growth of any organisms that come from Earth it very much can happen. That’s why NASA is so careful about contamination.
As long the conditions on Mars favor the growth of any organisms that come from Earth it very much can happen. That’s why NASA is so careful about contamination.
I was thinking along the lines of Earth can spit hard enough to get something outward in the solar system (instead of moving sunward). Then I had some more coffee and it registered that the planets.. they move, and Mars is in a sunward direction of us often enough.
If there is indeed microbial life that can survive the journey, nature has likely already contaminated the solar system with Earth microbes.
I was thinking along the lines of Earth can spit hard enough to get something outward in the solar system (instead of moving sunward). Then I had some more coffee and it registered that the planets.. they move, and Mars is in a sunward direction of us often enough.
If there is indeed microbial life that can survive the journey, nature has likely already contaminated the solar system with Earth microbes.
That’s a pretty hilarious sentence.
]]>That’s a pretty hilarious sentence.
]]>So this is something I’m not sure on the physics of… but if Mars-rocks can end up on Earth (potentially forward-contaminating Earth); can the same thing happen the other way, or is that something that pretty much only happens with material moving inward in the solar system?
]]>So this is something I’m not sure on the physics of… but if Mars-rocks can end up on Earth (potentially forward-contaminating Earth); can the same thing happen the other way, or is that something that pretty much only happens with material moving inward in the solar system?
]]>As long the conditions on Mars favor the growth of any organisms that come from Earth it very much can happen. That’s why NASA is so careful about contamination.
]]>As long the conditions on Mars favor the growth of any organisms that come from Earth it very much can happen. That’s why NASA is so careful about contamination.
]]>I was thinking along the lines of Earth can spit hard enough to get something outward in the solar system (instead of moving sunward). Then I had some more coffee and it registered that the planets.. they move, and Mars is in a sunward direction of us often enough.
If there is indeed microbial life that can survive the journey, nature has likely already contaminated the solar system with Earth microbes.
]]>I was thinking along the lines of Earth can spit hard enough to get something outward in the solar system (instead of moving sunward). Then I had some more coffee and it registered that the planets.. they move, and Mars is in a sunward direction of us often enough.
If there is indeed microbial life that can survive the journey, nature has likely already contaminated the solar system with Earth microbes.
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