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Terrestrial sanitation.....
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Terrestrial sanitation.....
There is a longstanding thought in space exploration that you sanitize all equipment when sending it to other celestial bodies to insure that your findings won't give you a false positive that what you find might give you the false impression that the life you think you have discovered originated from another body.

Here is my question, WHY is this important? I would think that if would be more important to prove our life can exist on other bodies. That would prove life is possible elsewhere.

For example, it would NOT surprise me if we sent tardigrades to the poles of Mars or Pluto and could prove our life could survive on other bodies.
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Terrestrial sanitation..... - by Brian37 - July 13, 2020 at 9:16 pm
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by arewethereyet - July 13, 2020 at 9:22 pm
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by Brian37 - July 13, 2020 at 9:39 pm
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by Belacqua - July 13, 2020 at 9:42 pm
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by Foxaèr - July 13, 2020 at 9:30 pm
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by Brian37 - July 13, 2020 at 9:43 pm
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by John 6IX Breezy - July 13, 2020 at 10:24 pm
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by Belacqua - July 13, 2020 at 11:28 pm
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by Belacqua - July 13, 2020 at 9:37 pm
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by John 6IX Breezy - July 13, 2020 at 9:42 pm
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by Fireball - July 13, 2020 at 10:26 pm
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - July 14, 2020 at 6:21 am
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by Paleophyte - July 15, 2020 at 1:00 am
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by AFTT47 - July 16, 2020 at 12:59 am
RE: Terrestrial sanitation..... - by ignoramus - July 15, 2020 at 1:40 am

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