🚀🦠 When we send rovers to #Mars, we try our best not to bring #Earth #microbes along for the ride.

A new model explains that while Mars’ intense radiation sterilizes the outside of a #spacecraft in just one day, some hardy #germs could hide inside for up to 25 years.

👉 https://www.universetoday.com/articles/how-long-could-earth-microbes-live-on-mars

💁🏻‍♀️✨ Who prevents Earth microbes from traveling to Mars? https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/who-prevents-earth-microbes-from-traveling-to-mars

#astrobiology #science #nasa #planets #research #biology #exploration

“All I have to say is, if kissing invites germs, a large proportion of us are gratifyingly germ-proof!” — Josephine Daskam Bacon, The Memoirs of a Baby
#BOTD #JosephineDaksamBacon #QOTD #Quotations #Quote #JosephineDaskamBacon #Germs

https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/quote-of-the-day-5432/

The best and brightest of the Republican leaders sets the health bar at snorting cocaine from public toilet seats. Typical.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WVjQV/

#rfk #health #republicans #embarrassing #trump #cocaine #pedophiles #epstine #germs #diseases

I'm a month and a half shy of 20 years drug sober. I'll admit to some bathroom snorts, but off toilet seats? Hell no. There are so many ways... You don't need to go there... #JustSayin

RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
#Felon47 #RFK #MAHA #Cocaine #Germs

“In the natural world, anything that is colored so brightly must be some kind of serious evolutionary badass”*…

There are an estimated 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive on earth today; they’ve been around for over 350 million years and ihabit nearly every environment, from deserts to snowy mountains. Their total biomass is massive, estimated to be around 70 times more than all humans combined. Often considered pests, only about 3% of species are harmful to humans; the vast majority are crucial for pollination, decomposition, and as food sources for other animals. (More insect data.)

“Loren” (and here) is a microbiologist fascinated by bugs– and ready to share…

I am incredibly fond of insects. They’re small and usually pretty fast, so it’s rewarding to successfully capture a photo of one. from 2017 to 2023, I was fairly consistent about chasing down bugs and sharing the photos on instagram, but sticking them all in a square grid can only do so much for me (or you). Here, I want to have a little more fun with my photos, and share other bug-related things that I like. There’s a lot! I am not an entomologist, merely a bug fan, so this page in its current state skews more towards the entertaining than the informative, but who knows what it may turn into. Right now there’s an entomology textbook sitting on my coffee table, and plenty of time to read it while the bugs overwinter…

Browse and learn: “The Bug Zone,” via Matt Muir (@mattmuir.bsky.social) and his always-illuminating Web Curios (@curiobot.bsky.social).

* Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

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As we creep and crawl, we might spare a thought for a man concerned with “bugs” of a different sort, Joseph Lister (1st Baron Lister, OM, PC, FRS, FRCSE, FRCPGlas, FRCS); he died on this date in 1912. A surgeon, medical scientist, and experimental pathologist, he was a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare. Just as John Hunter revolutionised the science of surgery, Lister’s revolutionized the craft of surgery.

Lister researched the role of inflammation and tissue perfusion in the healing of wounds, and advanced diagnostic science by analysing specimens using microscopes. But his biggest contributions were a function of his application of Louis Pasteur‘s then-novel germ theory. Lister introduced carbolic acid (modern-day phenol) as a steriliser for surgical instruments, patients’ skins, sutures, surgeons’ hands, and wards, promoting the principle of antiseptics. And he devised strategies to increase the chances of survival after surgery by reducing post-operative infections (e.g., segragating post-op patients from pre-op patients who had germ-riddled wounds).

See also.

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The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiCTq_AHcqw

#music #documentary #punk #hardcore #punkrock #germs #darbycrash #altrock #alternative #indie #indierock

In memory of Teresa Marie Ryan aka Lorna Doom, American musician and bass guitarist for the punk rock band the Germs, born on this day in 1958, Dallas, Texas.

Photo by Melanie Nissen?

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #lornadoom #germs #history #punkrockhistory #otd

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles

Germs:
🎵 Media Blitz

#Germs

https://gluemoonrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-germs-media-blitz-gi

https://open.spotify.com/track/0f4jhxdqtbfbPj9QrjQuwO

#Punk #IDreamedIDream

I dreamt I stumbled upon an unknown #Germs cassette bootleg at a dusty indoor swap meet. The packaging was DIY, with tape and b&w j-card housed in a plastic bag, stapled to a thin paper zine. Somehow I knew the tracks were taken from a late 70s gig at Mabuhay Gardens in SF. Didn't get to listen to it before I woke up, but we all know what a shitty Germs gig sounds like (even a shitty dream one), right?