NASA cleanrooms encouraged what evolutionary processes tend to do: find a way for a few resilient survivors to multiply:
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I also sense another surge of sci-fi plots. (Yes, that is evolutionary processes at work as well. Most such plots will fail to thrive but perhaps a few will get greenlit aka experience encouraging environments.)
The Sci-Fi plot which comes to my mind is The Andromeda Strain.
But perhaps I am being too literal …
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Proterozoic Park?
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Jurassic Park, surely?
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Just for the sake of discussion, I’ll pose the cocktail party question: Would it have been a better idea to NOT enforce such a thorough cleanroom strategy? Without excessive disinfection procedures, would “weaker” bacteria have been sent into space—and much more easily have been destroyed by UV light and extreme temperature conditions in space and on the surface of the moon?
[Discuss among yourselves: The cleanroom wasn’t all that clean and it really wasn’t so much a room as a warehouse. Discuss. — Linda Richman]
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Now that she’s no longer busy doing those yogurt TV commercials, I think Jamie Lee Curtis could star in Probiotic Park: Good To Go.
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I’m waiting for the BBC to produce Floating with protocells.
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There is no such thing as a ‘clean room’ if humans can enter. Just maybe ‘clean enough’ rooms and even then, it’s marginal.
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Indeed. That’s also been my personal hygiene motto.
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