Asteroid Mining Venture Backed by Google Execs, James Cameron Unveiled

[tombogan03884]

Let's hope they don't bring back some nasty organism from space that wipes out humanity!

Just sayin'...

They used to quarantine astronauts for a week or so to prevent that.
Since they never found anything alive they quit doing it.
I don't think it will be a problem until they start going to other planets that have an actual eco system.

[Timothy]

They used to quarantine astronauts for a week or so to prevent that.
Since they never found anything alive they quit doing it.
I don't think it will be a problem until they start going to other planets that have an actual eco system.

Yes but, where there's water, there's usually life in it's simplest form like single cell amoeba as I recall from 10th grade biology.

Primordial ooze...

[Solus]

Any water they find is going to be frozen.  But that doesn't mean anything alive in it before the freeze won't become active again when it thaws....

Ultra Violet exposure is likely to kill anything living it it...at least it does with any earth bred organisms.  In any case it isn't likely much from space will reach Earth without having been processed and inspected   (hopefully.

There is ore or minerals on Earth from which hydrogen can be extracted.  Perhaps they will exist out there too.  Then they need a source of oxygen and with both they can produce power with water being a byproduct.  

Hopefully, they will have more secure "borders" between Earth and space than we have in this country.