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RE: Bugs In the News: Bacteria boozing it up in NASA clean rooms
Very cool that you worked in a clean room - would enjoy reading more about that!
What do you mean about taking them into space for a few years?
Well, from what I understand these bacterias are sort of super bugs right?
Im curious what will happen if you take them into space on a multi year journey how they would evolve.
Super bugs is kind of hard to define, but they certainly are hardy and adaptable.
If they were dormant, they probably wouldn't evolve much. My guess is that, if active, they'd retain and maybe enrich strategies to cope with low nutrients & moisture, and high radiioactive stress. Maybe heat/cold shock tolerance. Long enough, and they might lose the genetic pathways to take advantage of other foodstocks.