[NIAC 2023] On-Demand Pharmacy for Space Missions
Universe Today Podcast
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The Importance of Chirality in Biogenesis
I think the greatest risk is, I mean obviously we don't want to harm an indigenous life form that's existing on Mars but, but like if we go and we do a sample and all we find are cyanobacteria from earth in every sample. Like we won't be able to get that a proper answer because our bacteria is just busy colonizing the spaces that it can get its hands on. If we were seeing our ancient cousins, we would have been separated by, you know, long periods of time, and therefore we would expect more changes he says.
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