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An important point....
By slashbinslashbash on 9/25/2007 2:41:00 PM , Rating: 2
I saw this researcher give a talk about this research a few months ago.

An important point is that this is NOT a genetic mutation. This is simply a result of these bacteria being raised in space. Think if you raised a human fully (from the embryo) in a near-weightless environment. That human would grow to look very different and have many different properties (e.g. bone density and musculature would be so weak as to limit their ever going into a full-gravity environment). But if you bred this human, and took the embryo back to Earth and raised it there, it would be perfectly normal. The genetics aren't changing.

So these bacteria are simply gaining certain properties from being raised in space. Once you bring them back to Earth, when they reproduce, they will produce Earth-normal bacteria as offspring.

RE: An important point....
Sounds like an experiment to create a Spacing Guild :)

