Editing Talk:2449: ISS Vaccine

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_maneuver#Transfer_orbits (it'd be an amazing pun if COVID vaccinations were administered into your eyeballs! because the eyeholes in the skull are called orbits)[[Special:Contributions/172.70.35.17|172.70.35.17]] 23:03, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
:If an astronaut gets a severe case of conjunctivitis, maybe they'd get an orbital injection. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 23:59, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
:Would NASA have to supply suppositories, instead of injections, for any such medical missions to the seventh planet? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.207|141.101.99.207]] 01:07, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
What about the part of the comic that side-steps the [https://astronomy.com/news/2020/04/how-does-nasa-keep-covid-19--and-other-diseases--off-the-space-station low likelihood of COVID-19 impacting the ISS in the first place]? [[User:Brilliantnut|Brilliantnut]] ([[User talk:Brilliantnut|talk]]) 01:17, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
: Good link containing a lot of material that could be added to the explanation.  Space sickness resembles covid-19 already.  Does not address when, how, and whether the astronauts are innoculated, but it sounds like the ones in the air are ripe for infection, and they receive the vaccine after return.  [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.20|162.158.63.20]] 17:33, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Randall, come here. Yes, right here. Stand still. THWACK! THWACK! THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK! That is all, you may go now.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.92|108.162.219.92]] 05:42, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
: What is this about exactly?  I looked at your thwacks and they do not appear to spell s-o-s in morse code, but I suppose they do in body language.  I'm guessing Steve Bannon sent you?  [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.20|162.158.63.20]] 17:33, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
:: Puns get thwacked. That is all. (For the uninitiated, "thwacking" involves pretending to hit someone while making hitting noises.)[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.68|108.162.219.68]] 19:42, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
: I think astronauts do get injections in space but i'm not sure. I am sure they draw blood for science. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.57.43|172.68.57.43]] 14:41, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

An interesting property of synthetic vaccines such as the current mRNA ones, is that (given that you have the proper equipment and consumables) you can straight away start producing it without ever having seen the actual virus.  In the future, a colony on a different planet that has an appropriately equipped bio lab (DNA synthesis, plasmid bacteria transformation and/or RNA polymerase, mixing fats into bubble ("nano particles") and the microfluidics to load one into another), could start producing the vaccine locally after merely receiving a FASTA file describing the Spike's sequence. (Exactly the same way as Pfizer/Biontec and Moderna could start filing application for their vaccine as soon as NC_045512.2 got uploaded on NCBI, before even getting a specimen from China). [[User:DrYak|DrYak]] ([[User talk:DrYak|talk]]) 15:41, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Early astronauts were quarantined after landing to protect Earth from spaceborne viruses. Now astronauts need to be quarantined after landing to protect them from earthborn viruses. [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|talk]]) 20:53, 17 April 2021 (UTC)