>A deadlier, more contagious virus will soon be released.
Sure. Here it comes.
https://sputniknews.com/science/202104301082768859-martian-plague-bringing-mars-samples-to-earth-may-cause-a-devastating-pandemic-scientists-warn/
>A deadlier, more contagious virus will soon be released.
Sure. Here it comes.
https://sputniknews.com/science/202104301082768859-martian-plague-bringing-mars-samples-to-earth-may-cause-a-devastating-pandemic-scientists-warn/
"I fear that, even if a safe Mars Sample Return container could be made and brought to Earth, there is a good probability that some of the sample would escape from the 'secure' lab where the container would be opened," Levin says.
Scientists from ICAMSR express a similar caution, citing legendary astronomer Carl Sagan, who warned about the consequences of the sample-bringing in his 1973 book:
“Precisely because Mars is an environment of great potential biological interest, it is possible that on Mars there are pathogens, organisms which, if transported to the terrestrial environment, might do enormous biological damage…aMartian plague.”