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#699: July 4-5, 2022

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NASA Watch New Life Forms Discovered on the International Space Station

This is nonsense. These are not newly created life forms And it's pretty well understood that these bacteria came from earth and were introduced to the space station by way of a passenger or cargo Research on them found that they were genetically and taxonomically similar to bacteria commonly found on rice grains. In every spoon of soil or stool sample there are hundreds of undescribed microbial species I'm sure there's still hundreds or even thousands of less characterized maybe even unknown microorganisms aboard the ISS.

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