Reply to post: Re: Too much fuss about contamination

Japan's mission to mine Mars' moon is cleared – now they've filled out the right paperwork on alien world contamination

Grooke

Re: Too much fuss about contamination

For a lone bacterium, I think the issue will be more about acceleration and speed/air resistance than force.

Getting instantaneously accelerated to escape velocity* means over 1000 Gs, and then you have to survive going through the atmosphere at said escape velocity.

*You'll need to be going much faster than that initially to account for drag.

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