NASA to investigate unknown fungus found growing on the space station (This is how it Starts)

Daily Mail ^ | 4-26-2017 | Mark Prigg

[Calvin Locke]

Mir was my first thought too. Then, a few months after Mir was crashed into the Pacific, a fungus-like growth washed ashore in NZ.

[WMarshal]

After 16 years in zero gravity a lot of dander, body oils, and god knows what else has stuck to every surface of the space station. “If you want mold, that is how you get mold!”

All they need is microfiber cloths dampened with water & bleach and the brainiacs snowflakes in space could solve the problem in a day.

[epluribus_2]

Uh, i think this is Slusho! Crap.

[Ragnar54]

The scariest movie I ever saw as a kid. I decided that veal parmigiana was "blood rust".

Space Master X-7 (1958)

[KarlInOhio]

It's from President Eisenhower's farewell address.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

I often quote it on global warming threads when the government pays for the answer it wants in research.

[BenLurkin]

Nope. No fun allowed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFzepWiUwU

[Farmer Dean]

Those things need to be sanitized after use.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“FEED ME!”

[SpaceBar]

analyse it in orbit...

That's like performing engine repair while driving down the highway. Why don't they just send a swab to a properly equipped laboratory on earth?

[plain talk]

[luvbach1]

I’ve seen this movie. It doesn’t end well.................

The Blob?

[Red Badger]

Stephen King's short subject 'Weeds' from Creepshow...................

[Buckeye McFrog]

After 16 years in zero gravity a lot of dander, body oils, and god knows what else has stuck to every surface of the space station.

Eeeeeeeewww!! If you want a space station that's CLEAN, you need a cleaner with BLEACH!

[Bigg Red]

Why are they FUNDING it? Do they want it to stay around? Must be Democrats.

[luvbach1]

Yes, that’s closer to a fungus.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Tonight's Feature on Monster Chiller Horror Theater is The Killer Fungus From Another Galaxy That Ate Detroit.

Just let me get the Red Wings out and it is all yours!

[faithhopecharity]

The (second) invasion of deadly alien scum begins (note: not a moslem article this time)

[Windflier]

Courtesy ping.

[Veto!]

Is that from the movie “The Green Slime?”

I had similar green junk stuck to some items I ordered from AMZ last month, sent back with a note and link to Green Slime movie.

You don’t suppose Bezos’ adventures in space have actually begun, do you?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeh bring a bunch of it back to earth. (Sarc)