Timeline for Short Story About How 2 Astronauts Who Stop for Lunch Unknowingly Destroy the Only Lifeform on an Arid Planet
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| Mar 27, 2023 at 22:31 | comment | added | user14111 | @Questor I believe there was still considerable uncertainty about surface conditions on Venus in 1961 when the story was published. | |
| Mar 27, 2023 at 21:23 | comment | added | Questor | @Rohnjohn overlooking the fact of course that Venus is an caustic hellscape less hospitable then space. And that the cigarettes, plastics, and earthborn microorganisms would have dissolved due to the caustic nature/heat of Venus. | |
| Mar 27, 2023 at 20:27 | comment | added | RonJohn | @Questor even worse is "it carried contagion to all its world." It's the only living thing on Mars, and there's so little free water. Also, where did the oxygen come from? (Having said that our knowledge of geology was less, and the theory of the Great Oxygenation Event was either not formed yet, or in it's infancy.) | |
| Mar 27, 2023 at 20:22 | comment | added | RonJohn | @Questor that readers should overlook an obvious plot hole for the sake of a social message? Bah humbug. | |
| Mar 27, 2023 at 20:13 | comment | added | Questor | @RonJohn because that wouldn't deliever the message that Arthur C Clarke wanted delivered. | |
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| Aug 21, 2017 at 21:21 | comment | added | RonJohn | If it could dissolve plastic, carbohydrates and proteins, why couldn't it dissolve the bacterial cell walls -- thus killing them, and why should we assume that Venusian works the same way that Earthican life does? | |
| May 14, 2017 at 0:30 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2016 at 17:50 | comment | added | Xantec | @mukhujje There are already sterilization standards in place for of NASA's interplanetary craft. The lengths that they go through to try to ensure all probes are sterilized are impressive. | |
| Oct 25, 2015 at 8:22 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2015 at 10:09 | comment | added | mukhujje | Yes I had the same feeling while reading it, this proves that we must set a standard of biological safety before we explore planets/moons such as Europa or Titan where a life form could likely be present. | |
| Jun 24, 2013 at 19:56 | comment | added | Michael Brown | Such a sad story. | |
| Jun 24, 2013 at 18:44 | history | edited | phantom42 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 24, 2013 at 18:24 | vote | accept | scifi fan from Ontario | ||
| Jun 24, 2013 at 18:19 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 24, 2013 at 17:57 | history | answered | user14111 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |