Mutant alien space bacteria brought back to Earth by robotic Mars explorers could eat your face off. Conceivably.An eminent scientist warns that when NASA brings Mars dirt back here to analyze for signs of alien life, it better make sure no alien spores or whatnot infest the Earth.The warning's in an article geologist Jeffrey Kargel wrote for the journal Science. Kargel said only that NASA should be careful with anything it brings back from Mars, but this safety tip has been hyped into comparisons to science-fiction movies like "Alien" and "The War of the Worlds."I learned about this from a UFO newsletter that also reported a possible Martian railroad tie turning up in a photo beamed back by the rover Opportunity. If Martians had railroads, you can bet they had dangerous bacteria, too, and it's probably still lying around up there.Bacteria we sent to the moon survived there for years."The astronauts, when they went to the moon, picked up a piece of equipment that they'd launched years before," said Shawn Cruzen, director of Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space Science Center. "They brought it back to Earth, and they had it in quarantine, and they realized that bacteria that had been alive when the thing launched in the first place had survived on the surface of the moon -- which is airless and irradiated and all that stuff -- for several years, and managed to make it back to the Earth."So, "there are environments in space where bacteria could exist, and if we brought them back to Earth, we'd have no natural immunity here," Cruzen said.Astronauts returning from the moon always were quarantined. The isolation method I recall from watching on TV was they sat in a trailer and talked to people through a big window. I've done that, too, but I can't say it cut down on my overall bacterial count.I can say I wish I'd thought of this excuse for living in a trailer back when I was a bachelor. If a date asked, "Do you actually LIVE here?", I'd say, "No. This is just where I'm quarantined when I come home from the moon."But wait -- doesn't the space science center display moon-mission artifacts? What if Earth bacteria mixed with UFO-borne alien Martian railroad worker microbes produced infectious hybrid spores that could leap through a crack in the display case, go down your gullet and bust out your gut before you reached the restroom?Don't get your hopes up, Cruzen said: All the science center has right now is a NASA space suit that "could potentially have gone into space. We're just not sure."
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