'Super bacteria' survive for three years outside space station

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'Super bacteria' survive for three years outside space station

Scientists are stunned that bacteria attached to the outside of the International Space Station survived for three years.

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'Super bacteria' survive for three years outside space station


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Scientists who attached a strain of bacteria to the outside of the International Space Station have been stunned to find it survived for three years, in open space.
The experiment, led by a team of Japanese researchers, involved the bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans, also known as Conan the Bacterium due to its extreme hardiness.
Experts say the study could help shape our understanding of whether life might exist on other planets.
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[Beast]

They will mutant and destroy ISS. better burn them off.

 

[jamahir]

Hmm, after the Israeli water bears on the moon now comes the bacterium outside the ISS.