r721
6 hours agoBetter source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/20/moss-spores-...
adrian_b
3 minutes agoLink to the research article:
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)02088-7
The link provided in The Guardian is broken.
GeorgeWoff25
5 hours ago[flagged]
r721
5 hours ago^ This account frequently comments in OP account's posts:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45992902
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963351
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953724
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45943338
UPD Archived comment: https://archive.is/tW6SZ
schrodinger
3 hours agoand vice versa: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976597
hparadiz
5 hours agoI always wonder what would happen if you put a fully enclosed glass terrarium in space. How would it fair. Not big either. Grape fruit sized.
nine_k
4 hours agoSphere's surface grows as radius squared, but volume grows as radius cubed. Hence a small terrarium will quickly freeze, and a huge terrarium will eventually fry. There is an optimal size for a terrarium, given its orbit, that keeps its internal temperature within the habitable range.
Also it would need many more plants than animals. I would rather go with an aquarium.
ilamont
2 hours agoGiant terrariums in space was the premise of one of the great science fiction films of the early 1970s: Silent Running
Mistletoe
5 hours agoIf it was in the sun it would be incinerated and in the shade it would freeze right?
ordu
5 hours agoSo... Now we have a way to commit an act of biological terrorism on the whole Milky Way? Just get a hundred of tons of moss spores to space and accelerate them in all direction to spread them all over Milky Way. It is somehow a very satisfying thought. Maybe I'm a born terrorist deep down, and just didn't get the chance to become one?
nathias
an hour agoand yet, it dies after 1 week when I bring it in as a houseplant
HackerBarrel
16 minutes ago[dead]
zkmon
2 hours agoAny idea that Earth-bound life need to migrate to outside of Earth, is a stupid sales talk, good for selling fiction stories. Any research work in this direction is purely to protect the jobs, work and funding.