Sending Tardigrades to Phobos

Although we did not do it on either the Mars Rover or the One that we are sending in 2020 for some odd reason.

Don't we ever learn about the consequences about bringing in an invasive species....

'The morality in question is it risks possibility of contaminating Phobos with Earth life. It doesn't matter now because the mission failed in 2011, but there are hopes to revive it.'

Morality? What you mean is guilt has finally pushed them to tell you what they have done many years ago and the life they are finding was sent up by NASA and the Russians.

"and the life they are finding" - They are not finding life:

"The Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment^[2] (LIFE or Phobos LIFE^[3]) was an interplanetary mission developed by the Planetary Society. It consisted of sending selected microorganisms on a three-year interplanetary round-trip in a small capsule aboard the Russian Fobos-Grunt spacecraft in 2011, which was a failed sample-return mission to the Martian moon Phobos. The Fobos-Grunt mission failed to leave Earth orbit,^[4][5] and was destroyed."

I think on further research you will discover that they did in fact find microbes way back in the early 70's that they could not quite explain on capsules and on the shuttle.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188479-astronauts-find-living-organisms-clinging-to-the-international-space-station-and-arent-sure-how-they-got-there

Start here!

Indeed! But, from the article: 1. "The organisms found on the ISS aren't tardigrades", and 2. If that was from the early 70's (must admit I did not read the whole article to find out), the it wasn't from the failed LIFE experiment.

I am still confused where you are getting: "What you mean is guilt has finally pushed them to tell you what they have done"

There is no connection here that I can see.

1969 They were tardigrades. Why do you think they want to send them back? And, they are just polluting another place in the name of mankind.

The so called LIFE experiment was proved in 1969. 46 Years ago. Is there a point to doing the same thing again and wasting your tax money. The ISS is there to do the same thing and over 200 people have been there. Do you really think it has not been proved already? Look at any ISS video feed and see just what is floating around in space and see what has been noted.

Check out this link. Surprised!

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/i-dont-think-youre-ready-for-this-jelly/280674/

Don't get me wrong, I think the idea is "dumber than a box of rocks". Before sending any form of earth life to another planet, you should slap yourself in the face with the "law of unintended consequences". Then rethink your decision.

And yes, I agree the point that tardigrades can survive has already been well proven. Just not by the LIFE experiment was my point, but rather by life itself. Therefore no guilt, other than the guilt of trying to prove something they already knew.

Just encase a human with a cell phone and XBox in concrete and send him on his way. He will tell you more on Facebook than the little bug will tell you. iPhone & iDiot in Space. L.I.F.E. Long Interstellar Facebook Experiment.

http://www.space.com/11536-moon-microbe-mystery-solved-apollo-12.html

As far back as 1969.

The astrobiological upshot as deduced from the unplanned experiment was that 50 to 100 of the microbes appeared to have survived launch, the harsh vacuum of space, three years of exposure to the moon's radiation environment, the lunar deep-freeze at an average temperature of minus 253 degrees Celsius, not to mention no access to nutrients, water or an energy source.

Not really news worthy today. Old news to some of us.

Somehow reminds me of the movie "The Andromeda Strain"

I don't see this as any more of a moral issue than sending any man-made object to another planet/moon/place. What's to say that the object being sent isn't already crawling with micro-organisms.