adverse...environmental.........conditions

1.6 Parts Crusty Bacon 3.9 Parts Goats Milk 94.5 Parts Methane. No, they're all gonna die of asphyxiation...it smells like SJ crap up there...sorry I couldn't resist.

I wondered who'd finally bite on this.

lol, me too

A-hahaha!..

N. Korea just sent a satellite there to find out.

It crashed into the sea after just one km.....lol all the other countries are pointing and laughing.

A Kim 8 was aboard and faked the rocket explosion to mask a jump to light speed.

it was inebidibabble

Tracking dust onto the ship would kill them before any alien would have a chance unless they were wearing their EVA suits the entire time. This may be why we see them casually spraying flamethrowrs around the ships loading dock.

@Ashmodean Are you saying that the soil is full of microbes and bacteria? Normally I would have to applaud you for bringing this to everyone's attention. However looking at the planet on Prometheus's approach it looks inert, scorched, parched, just plain dead. I know appearances can be deceiving. Thank God or wouldn't life be predictable, and oh so boring? The behavior of the crew, especially David opening one of the URNs inside the ship with his bare hands is unforgiveable. They obviously have some very odd containment protocols going on. Aren't we all glad we're not one of those tiny castaways, marooned on the ass end of space.

Not microbes so much as the dust itself. Buzz Aldrin has even said that the worst part of the moon landing was dealing with the lunar dust they tracked into the lander on the way back. He said it was like nothing on Earth and was extremely irritating to the eyes and nose. Really they were extremely lucky that it wasn't more toxic. It is one of the biggest and most basic problems to solve before we even try to send people to Mars.

@Ashmodean, Very good point. It's a pain to clean sand off of everything after a trip to the beach, and that's basically just harmless, large-grained silicates. The dust that would collect on equipment and surfaces after exploring an alien planet would be like the fine dust that still accumulates in a vacuum cleaner despite the vacuum having multiple filters. How do you clean that dust out of every nook and cranny of the vacuum? Now imagine that vacuum cleaner is a space suit or a vehicle.

The particular problem for NASA is dealing with dust in a vacuum. One technique currenly being considered is electrostatic repulsion. Just as static charge can be used to attract dust, it can also be used to repell it.

[quote=DJAB]It crashed into the sea after just one km.....lol all the other countries are pointing and laughing.[/quote] Don't make fun of North Korea, they are going to pitch it as an amazing success for their prototype short range air-to-sea rocket.