microbes happily cling to spacecraft

Tags: space exploration
Categories: Pseudo-explanations

An example of anthropomorphism in popular scence writing:

"No matter how much a spacecraft is sterilised before launch, there will still be million of terrestrial microbes happily clinging to it."

Andrew May

May, A. (2019) Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.