Everything is fine.
March 2
We got told of ‘reasonable precautions’ to ‘handle any concerns.’ Since we’re in a vacuum and the temperature’s cold enough to freeze carbon dioxide, the senior techs have decided that popping the lid on one of the canisters long enough to get a tissue sample wouldn’t do any harm. Once we get enough of the sample scanned and mapped, we can even put it back, and run simulations to work out the properties of the flesh. Some of the liquid nitrogen might boil away in the meantime, but if we go quickly enough, not enough to matter.
It’s not actually a bad plan. There’s a lot of oddball organisms out there, but we’ve never found anything that could survive under these conditions. You need energy for life, and there’s not enough energy here to spare. Simple as that. And there’s no way a biological entity could infect a computer system, either. We should be fine.
We should be fine.