Sounds like it's about time to re-read "The Andromeda Strain". Good movie too... The mutant space fungus was apparently not a health problem for the inhabitants of Mir, though they certainly had some interaction with it according to Dragonfly and some other sources. Any isolated environment will have an evolving biocomplex that will deviate from the norm over time. It will be interesting to see what comes back from our non-Earthly colonies in the millenia to come. Probably a much bigger hazard than dealing with the relatively sterile environments native to those worlds upon our arrival. And re-entry is unlikely to protect us from those kinds of dangers. I presume that if there is any life on other solar system worlds, it may have originated from Earth anyway and we may already have recieved significant recontamination from the other planets. I think there's a Mir pass here in Tucson on Saturday. I'll have to pay my respects to it then. I remember watching SkyLab fly over Tucson in July of 1979 on the morning it re-entered, about 1 or 2 orbits before it finally came down. I prefer my memories of it around x-mas of 1973 when the 3rd crew was aboard it, though.... That was one of my earliest memories of satellite watching. Jim. On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Dale Ireland wrote: > Interesting final news story this noon on the Seattle CBS affiliate KIRO TV 7. > They say Russian "experts" warn of toxins that may be released by "mutant space fungi" aboard Mir when it crashes into the Pacific. > Better look out if you are heading to see the reentry > Dale > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > Jim Scotti Lunar & Planetary Laboratory jscotti@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 USA http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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