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Comment Re:Pandemic Russian Roulette (Score 4, Insightful) 65

One, microbes adapted to Mars would stand zero chance against the very many adapted to Earth and constantly fighting against each others.
Two, there are rocks small and large falling constantly from the sky, with remnants from comets with organic materials (not AFAWK microbes) on them, and no they don't all fry in the atmosphere on the way down, and no, they don't cause any contamination on Earth. Something from Mars wouldn't be much different; don't watch too much bad sci-fi.

Comment Re:Obviously black metal was not part ot the sampl (Score 1) 143

Yeah, yeah, yeah... My question for those is "will you still be listening to it one year from now? 20 years from now?". I'm sure I'll still be listening to Ministry or In Flames 20 years from now. But that cuss-word filled rap with no music, no rhythm, no voice, no talent and nothing else... I'm sure you won't.

Comment Re:CFC-free foam caused it (Score 1) 93

It was said at the time that the white paint on the early shuttle tanks served to also keep the foam together and reduce drag on it.

They scrapped it to save money and increase payload by a tiny fraction. But mostly to save money.

Engineers: this is necessary.
NASA Bean Counters: nah.

Every freakin' time.

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