Posted on 11/11/2017 6:30:48 AM PST by BenLurkin
After the E. coli samples arrive at the ISS, the experiment will examine how microgravity affects the bacteria's ability to thrive while exposed to antibiotics. Since humans started using antibiotics in the mid-20th century, pathogens like E. coli have evolved new genes that make them increasingly resistant to antibiotics.
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The NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer at the International Space Station will send the bacteria on their way, and the experiment will be conducted autonomously inside the cubesat.
Both naturally occurring and mutant strains of E. coli will be exposed to different concentrations of antibiotics. "The overall purpose of this is to challenge these bacteria to different stress levels that will be controlled autonomously through software," Stevan Spremo, the EcAMSat project manager at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, said during a teleconference with reporters. The investigation aims to determine "the lowest dose of antibiotic needed to inhibit growth of Escherichia coli (E. coli), a bacterial pathogen that causes infections in humans and animals," NASA officials wrote in a description of the experiment.
Rather than being housed inside the space station, this experiment will take place in a 6U cubesat, a small satellite that has six times the volume of a single cubesat. EcAMSat's satellite weighs about 23 lbs. (10.4 kilograms) and measures 14.4 inches (36.6 centimeters) long, 8.9 inches (22.6 cm) wide and 3.9 inches (9.9 cm) tall.
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This will be great for my “Chipotle Space Station” franchise.
What could possibly go wrong?
Prep for future space flight by humans?
Alien will be born . . . and then it will rip through people’s chest cavity and start eating humans. It’s all good!
Just like the Goobermint, to go broke while spending millions to launch a turd into obit.
Cue the bar scene from the early star wars flick.
Throwing up in your helmet while in weightless space can’t be a good thing ....
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
THAT, and NOT having a helmet on when you’re weightless in the cabin, and throwing up....
Clever way to cover up an accidental sewage discharge from the ISS.
Sounds like the plot from a 50’s sci-fi movie.
Exactly.
NASA has been pushing crap for years, now it’s official.
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