Germs sent into space return meaner and deadlier.

[DjfunkmasterG]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/09/25/germs.in.space.ap/index.html

[bassman]

So I wonder what would happen if they sent up...say...antibiotics. Would those be stronger?:rockbrow:....

[DjfunkmasterG]

:lol::shifty: Good question... So if they sent up vioxx would the mortality rate be 3 months as opposed to 3 years?

Something they should look into.

[bassman]

What about Viagra or enzyte? :lol:

[Trancelikestate]

dude! its like the blob!! sorta

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/3919/theblobvp2yg9.gif

[MinionZombie]

What about Viagra or enzyte? :lol:
lol, I was so just about to make a penis joke...and then there you go, blowing my thunder... ... ...and stealing my idea. :lol::lol:

BOOM-BOOM! :D

[Terran]

So I wonder what would happen if they sent up...say...antibiotics. Would those be stronger?:rockbrow:....


Short answer is no because antibiotics are not living creatures that are capable of evolving....They would go up into space... and the same ones would come back...because they are not reproducing and adapting to their new environment.... It would be like getting a hair cut and sending the clippings up into space and expecting them to come back stronger, longer or whatever....the hair wont develop new characteristics


The "germs"(bacteria in this case) that they sent up into space according to the article had changed a 167 genes in their population while adjusting to their new environment.....A side effect of these genes being changed is apparently a more virulent strain of Salmonella....This effect could vary between different types of organisms I would imagine depending on the method in which they are pathogenic....



But........if we took say... Penicillium chrysogenum(a mold) and subjected it to increasing more and more pathogenic bacteria ....its possible that the mold could eventually produce stronger antibiotics to deal with these new adverse conditions.....

[Tricky]

Now theres an idea for a 28 themed film!US astronauts working on the rage virus in a lab on the international space station,supposedly to keep it away from the population on earth,inadvertantly bring it back down with them stronger than it was before & infect mainland america...:p

[AcesandEights]

Now theres an idea for a 28 themed film!US astronauts working on the rage virus in a lab on the international space station,supposedly to keep it away from the population on earth,inadvertantly bring it back down with them stronger than it was before & infect mainland america...:p

Get to work on that script and sell it!