Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Apollo astronauts left their poop on the moon. We gotta go back for that sh*t.

Vox has an article about how "Apollo astronauts left their poop on the moon. We gotta go back for that sh*t. What 50-year-old dirty diapers can teach us about the potential origins of life on Earth.

It’s been nearly 50 years since the Apollo 11 moon landing. Neil Armstrong’s iconic footprint is still there, undisturbed; there’s no atmosphere, no wind on the moon to blow it away.

But the bigger human footprint on the moon is, arguably, the 96 bags of human waste left behind by the six Apollo missions that landed there.

Yes, our brave astronauts took dumps on their way to the moon, perhaps even on the moon, and they left behind their diapers in baggies, on humanity’s doorstep to the greater cosmos.

The bags have lingered there, and no one knows what has become of them. Now scientists want to go back, and answer a question that has profound implications for our future explorations of Mars: Is anything alive in them? ..."

This poopy ant should go to space to dump his sh*ts for science. :P

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