Re: starship-design: Hi, from a newbie

[KellySt@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/13/02 3:13:45 PM, Hexagram14@aol.com writes:

>> Well realistically your probably stuck in the ship, or a space station,
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>> rather then on a planet.  Theirs little chance of finding a planet like
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>> earth, and nearly none that an Earth like planet wouldn't have life forms
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>> (especially microbes) too lethal to coexist with.
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>Highly doubtful - Earthly microbes have evolved to attack Earthly lifeforms,
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>and it's very likely alien microbes would be the same way - they'd find
>us 
>quite indigestible!


As long as they ae based on something like our chemistry, we'll be digestable 
to simple fungi and microbes - ones we have no defence to.  And on earth the 
worst plagues are from microbes or viruses hiting a species they never 
normally infect.  AIDS or Ebola for example.