[link to microbewiki.kenyon.edu]
Bacillus subtilis

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Deinococcus radiodurans

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Nasty things equipped. Sounds like a super-weapon. FYI, Bacillus subtilis is Anthrax...


1st hypothesis: This spacecraft is purposely "stuck" in Earth's orbit, to cause a massive disaster.

2nd hypothesis: In the early '80s the former Russian pilot Col. Marina Popovich, who also was married to cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, stunned the world saying that Phobos is an alien space station. In case of this spacecraft was really headed to Phobos, perhaps "someone" just intercepted it, what makes me think if the Russians aren't in the middle of some interplanetary cold war.

The first hypothesis is the most scary, because might be the ultimate crime of TPTB against mankind: A supersonic bomb loaded with toxic fuel and causative agents of several diseases.


[link to history.nasa.gov]


[link to www.youtube.com]


Those bacteria exposed to sun radiation and are mutating genes probably, uh-oh

[link to www.npr.org]

Astronauts are usually kept in quarantine before flight to prevent them from coming into contact with germs that they might bring on board a spacecraft. But last year, bacteria didn't have to sneak onto space shuttle Atlantis. Scientists put the bacteria on board, safely sealed up in tubes, and watched them blast off.

The mission involved a study lead by Arizona State University biologist Cheryl Nickerson that shows spaceflight affects the strength of salmonella, a germ that causes diarrhea and food poisoning.

While the shuttle orbited Earth, one of the astronauts turned a crank on a special canister. This mixed the bacteria with some food so that they started to grow. Then the shuttle headed home.

"These samples were recovered incredibly quickly off of the shuttle upon landing," Nickerson says.


Within a couple of hours, before the bacteria could readjust to life on Earth, the scientists used them to infect mice. These mice ended up doing much worse than animals infected with bacteria grown on earth.


"They got sick quicker and they ultimately succumbed to the infection quicker," Nickerson says.

This is the first time anyone has shown that bacteria can become more dangerous after spaceflight, Nickerson says. Previous studies had shown that some bacteria grow faster in space, or seem better able to resist antibiotics.



"So we had a lot of basic fundamental knowledge that spaceflight can change a lot of properties of microbial cells, but we didn't have any mechanistic understanding at the molecular level of why that was happening," Nickerson says.

Nickerson says many people find it surprising that weightlessness has an effect on microbes.
*Very strange considering "Microgravity" is used with bacteria...WARNING


So, she adds, the new bacteria study suggests astronauts could face a double threat to their health in space — a weaker immune system trying to fight off stronger bacteria.

The study is being published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Very BIG PROBLEMS

Bacteria in space and under radiation has ability for gene's to get mutated and thereby increasing strength from 20X - 400X

For Anthrax, WHY?? Is this going to crash on Earth and regardless of location is going to cause a super-virus to kill most of world?

Heard about hundreds, thousands of underground bunker's getting built and didn't figure there use til now.


Biological Warfare...