Well, I will be dipped in…sea plankton.
Oh great, just a matter of years before they evolve intelligence and invade.
Next thing you know, they’ll show up on the moon.
My theory: dark matter is actually sea plankton.
I think I’ve seen this before. Next it will mutate, grow into giant vines all over the station, and then try to infiltrate the crew with pod-people replicas in the hopes of becoming established on Earth.
We need to nuke that station in orbit. It’s the only way to make sure.
Being carried there in the air, I assume, makes sense. My question is why are they taking samples of outside of the windows? Just to see what’s collecting out there?
Probably to see what space-schmutz actually consists of.
Are they still analyzing this stuff? Who knows what else they’ll find… :eek:
Since the fall of the USSR, Tass sometimes reports strange things, like landing flying saucers. I guess it is that they can no longer shoot reporters for stories that the Party doesn’t like. 
Pankton: Panko or Plankton?
Either would be remarkable.
Would you be dipped in Panko? Yummmmm. . .
Does that mean that we could use whale shark poo as rocket fuel?
Someone call Mr. Crabs!!
Alas, Bob Denver has left us… Maynard G. Crabs is no more.
I don’t see where the report says the plankton were alive. Later in the various articles I’ve found it does say that, but the initial report seems to be that they found sea plankton which were not typical of the launch site, and were probably blown there by wind currents.
The statement that it’s proof some organisms could live on the surface of the station may refer to the plankton being good food sources for bacterial extremophiles. As far as I can tell, nobody on the scientific end of the conversation is suggesting that live sea plankton are in any way colonizing or thriving upon the surface of the space station.
Just in case though, better lock up the formulerrrr!
Ah. Can’t forget Occam’s Razor. 
…and I thought living in the suburbs was “getting away from it all”…
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