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Adam — (archived)

...where no one has had a cold before.

I think back contamination is a minor issue. Biological hazard procedures should suffice - and if not then isn't "strange new life" one of the things we're searching for, however intimately, out there?

I think the odds are next to nil because odd things get dug up, scooped up and flushed up every time we dig into the deeper reaches of our Earth and no one has gotten sick yet. It's the nasty stuff that lives in our superficial soils and fellow warm-blooded critters that's likely to infect us NOT extremophiles from Mars.

SO I think it is a crock!

Adam

PS But I still want that comet/asteroid spotting Lunar telescope network too, EP. I think perfecting automated observatories on the Moon is a great goal - or building a Halo Orbit servicing base if orbital sites prove better.

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