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Common yeast can survive Martian conditions

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79 points geox | 6 comments | 14 Oct 25 22:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
1. oh_my_goodness ◴[14 Oct 25 23:44 UTC] No.45586328[source]▶
So send the yeast.
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2. pbhjpbhj ◴[22 Oct 25 21:37 UTC] No.45675475[source]▶
My first thought on reading the title of the OP was 'I wonder if we've already ruined Mars with unhelpful yeast?'.

Surely there's nothing for it to eat there yet though.

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3. IsTom ◴[22 Oct 25 21:44 UTC] No.45675556[source]▶
When jupiterians come to explore mars they'll face a horror movie scenario with long dormant alien pathogen eating through their carbohydrate shells.
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4. ghkbrew ◴[22 Oct 25 23:03 UTC] No.45676260{3}[source]▶
I think they prefer "Jovians".
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5. Tade0 ◴[22 Oct 25 23:32 UTC] No.45676491{4}[source]▶
That's just our word for them, just like Protestants is a Catholic umbrella term for most other denominations.
6. gus_massa ◴[22 Oct 25 23:47 UTC] No.45676586[source]▶
More seriously, they send only sterilized landers to Mars, to avoid killing all life there (if there is any), and to avoid the problem of finding in a few years the contamination we sended there. More info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection