Could bacteria from Jovian Satellites destroy Human Civilization?

It might have been transported from here to Mars, too, of course.

In fact, keeping samples from other places pure and unadulterated by earth-crap is not easy. We crashed the Cassini satellite into Saturn in order to keep it from polluting any of the moons. Was that enough? Did it work? Did we keep it clean as Cassini flew through the rings, etc.? I hope so.

 

True, but evidence suggests that Mars had water in ancient times and, due to a more distant orbit and smaller size, may have cooled and developed far earlier than Earth. Not saying it had intelligent life, just the possibility it had life first, some of which could have been transported to Earth by impact events, before dying off.

 

Just like me!

 

Doubt it, it’s going to be an asteroid.

 

That's just one of the many ways the human race could be killed off.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/a-human-extinction-isnt-that-unlikely/480444/

 

I will try posting there. How many reviews does an average story get?

 

Very Very unlikely -- the probability is about one in a million per century.

 

Thank you -- saving the article.

 

Yeah, and we’re well over due for a catastrophic one. Just like we’re way past due on yellow stone erupting.

 

Two thoughts:

1) are you writing for yourself or reviews?

2) what is your main goal with writing?

 

That depends. the rule for short stories is one must review 5 other short stories for everyone one posts. Novellas, it is two to one. If one has written a book, you can post it in sections in the novella section. I found Zoetrope very useful. Just one word of advice. Don't try to please all the reviewers and do everything they say. It's your story, you wrote it. You take what advice and make what changes you think will improve your story, changes that you like and think good. Ignore all other suggestions.

If you decide to post your story on zoetrope, send me a PM and I will go log in there and review it. But only take the advice and that goes from me also, that you think personally improves your story.

 

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NASA's new guardian of the galaxy? An Indiana University professor
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Maybe if I do not get interest on any forum, I will post there. Forums have been my cyberhome for a long time.

 

Zoetrope is for writers of stories, fiction. Flash fiction, short stories, novellas. This forum is political for politics. Up to you though.

 

Like the Andromeda Strain, eh. I think it is unlikely, but at the same time an intriguing possibility nonetheless. As a species introduced into a new habitat on Earth can be very destructive to the local ecosystem, it is conceivable that an extraterrestrial organism could be similarly destructive if unleashed on Earth. Then again, it could prove completely harmless, possibly unable even to survive. See, even as terrestrial life would have no evolved adaptations for coping with the alien, the alien would have no adaptations for coping with terrestrial life, and so it could happen that terrestrial life would wipe it out in short order. Then there are other important factors, such as environmental differences. An organism in a Europan ocean would not be accustomed to terrestrial water chemistry and might well fail to survive that. It certainly would not be prepared for the level of ultra violate radiaiton that it may receive here. It would need to stay deep in our own bodies of water to be safe from that.

 

I will probably post there.

 

Or even much more destructive. Introduced by Dr. Victor Frankenstein in 2061.

 

How does a German with an old-fashioned name manage to introduce Europan life to Earth? Is it an ESA mission?