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Hurricane Katrina and the Ohio train derailment: Science, confusion, and human influence

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The Importance of Quarantine in Space

In 1969, astronauts were coming back from the moon. NASA decided to quarantine just about everything and everyone who had come into contact with the moon. An environmental historian from Georgetown University wanted to see how useful that quarantine was. He looked through those archives and overall, he found that the protocol they followed wasn't really needed but if there had been any lunar germs it would also probably not have been super effective.

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