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Animal survives naked in space

kinetic

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http://www.livescience.com/space/080908-space-creature.html

He's totally naked! No pants!

But yeah, there's an animal that survived in space without a problem... o_O
 
Sweet, another thing to realize is when NASA went to the moon the left a camera there on an early mission and picked it up later and found a thriving colony of streptocaucus bacteria living between the camera lens and the housing... for two years on the surface of the Moon!

Now we have a little more complex organism... only thing I don't like about that article was
with all its deadly radiation, on a spacecraft in low-Earth orbit.
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There's not terribly much deadly radiation in a low-Earth orbit.
 
not terribly much, but still enough to kill most other organisms? I wonder if they'd survive going out even further.

It'd be sweet if they figured out how those guys fixed any damaged cells from the radiation, would be good news for cancer patients as it mentions in the article!
 
[quote author=kinetic link=topic=4495.msg54767#msg54767 date=1220987706]
not terribly much, but still enough to kill most other organisms?
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Well low-earth orbit is where the space shuttle/space station orbit... so some guys at NASA better hope it's not enough to kill :D I'm guessing these were on a shuttle mission though.
 
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