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Re: starship-design: Hi, from a newbie
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.