Space Makes Salmonella Deadlier
 

So some scientists decided to take some salmonella into space and then bring it back and put it through testing to see what sort of effects spacetravel has on the evil bugger.

It ended up making it significantly deadlier(I think it had something like 90% kill rate on the lab mice, compared to normal Salmonella which was something like 50-60%...something like that).

Space is bad!

First off, what a waste of money. Second off, source? Third, I hope they're smart enough to incinerate the stuff and be done with it, but knowing scientists, they'll keep it for study like idiots and we'll end up with an outbreak.

The source was the Democrat & Chronicle of the Rochester area.
Given that we recycle things around here...um...yeah. The paper is long gone so I can't do a scan of it or copy it word for word.
But I believe their website keeps archives of their articles...perhaps. Can't remember.

http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/73159/

there. there's one link. SMILE YOU PICKLE MONKEY LAZY PICKLES SMILE.
:P

See, this is why great unknown places are evil.

actually I like to think that science has become a root of evil....
which is in contradiction to the fact that I love sciences...

I think that they're running outta things to test now....

"Hey! What happens if we put monkeys in go-karts? Iuhnno, just say we're testing their... um... motor skills. Yeah. Or - pants. How about we put a buncha monkey's in pants?"

"What is it with you and monkeys, Phil? Can't we just put Bacteria and Viruses into space like everyone else?"

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...h/20040814.jpg

It's not that we're running out of things to test, it's that everyone has their own opinion on what a 'good' thing to research is.

Objectively, not all research topics/avenues are 'good.'

I'm not sure about the manuscript behind this, but the supposed result of the experiment sounds rather cool if you ask me.

I really think scientists need to refocus themselves on their work. Seriously who sends germs up into space basically to "Find out what will happen"?

Shouldn't you be more focused on combating the germs rather than these pointless experiments.

This was not pointless. In fact I would say this was a very necessary experiment. Simply put we are on the verge of putting a lot more people into microgravity situations. In fact we might be only a few decades from extended stays in microgravity for those people. Since bacteria and germs have a tendency to hitch a ride with humans where ever we go it behooves us to study what might happen to said bugs in these new environments. Given the results of this study I'd say it was a damn good thing too.