Link: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060313/full/060313-18.html
One interesting thing I found in this article relates to outerspace bacteria, and possibly other organisms that can survive entering Earth's atmosphere!
I point this out due to some believe our "scientists" did not need the protection of bio-hazard suits when handling "space particles" in a recent experiment.
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"But could bacteria survive the sudden heat and acceleration of being thrown into space?
Other researchers at the conference suggest that they can. Wayne Nicholson, a microbiologist from the University of Florida in Gainesville, has tested the idea with a gun the size of a house at NASA's Ames Research Center.
He and his colleagues fired a marble-sized pellet at about 5 kilometres per second into a plate that contained bacterial spores in water, in order to simulate a meteorite impact. The debris that scattered upwards was caught in sheets of foam, and the team found that about one in 10,000 bacteria survived. "It's an experimental validation of a fairly well established calculation," says Moore."
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One interesting thing I found in this article relates to outerspace bacteria, and possibly other organisms that can survive entering Earth's atmosphere!
I point this out due to some believe our "scientists" did not need the protection of bio-hazard suits when handling "space particles" in a recent experiment.
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"But could bacteria survive the sudden heat and acceleration of being thrown into space?
Other researchers at the conference suggest that they can. Wayne Nicholson, a microbiologist from the University of Florida in Gainesville, has tested the idea with a gun the size of a house at NASA's Ames Research Center.
He and his colleagues fired a marble-sized pellet at about 5 kilometres per second into a plate that contained bacterial spores in water, in order to simulate a meteorite impact. The debris that scattered upwards was caught in sheets of foam, and the team found that about one in 10,000 bacteria survived. "It's an experimental validation of a fairly well established calculation," says Moore."
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D)... I have to let you know that other scientists spoke out on radio interviews and said it actually was 'sloppy' in not taking precautions with that type of material. I don't have names, but it's what I heard. 
