| Cacique Caribe | 30 Mar 2018 9:18 p.m. PST |
Mosquitoes are the biggest killers of humans on Earth. What if the same thing happens to humans with tiny wildlife on other planets … like MARS, for example? WHAT IF … Mars had dormant eggs or spores (Native or from some place else), which suddenly hatch when given water and air:
thinkgeek.com/product/e8b9YouTube linkQUESTIONS 1 Would it slow or stop our resolve to colonize?
2 Would we impose a quarantine of some sort, until all people and goods are cleared by authorities?
3 Would we set up a space station for quarantine subjects?
4 Or would we feel the risk is too great for life on Earth even then?
5 What if not all nations agreed on the restrictions, and wanted their citizens free to come home, or wanted a shot of their own at trying to test the subjects and take samples back for study? Or for their weapons development departments? Dan |
 Herkybird  | 30 Mar 2018 11:02 p.m. PST |
Fear not, the genome on another planet would be as alien as the creatures!
Short of eating/crushing etc, I doubt we are at risk. |
| Cacique Caribe | 30 Mar 2018 11:33 p.m. PST |
But, but, but … What if Martian Sea Monkey DNA, brought over in space debris, is what gave rise to life on Earth! :) Dan |
| Giles the Zog | 31 Mar 2018 1:14 a.m. PST |
See the film "Life", Matt Damon's more recent effort, which is based on the premise that some form of spore or hibernating bacteria grows into something a bit more frightening. Load of old tosh (the film that is) and a lesson in how not to deal with bio hazards by undertrained ill equipped space station and crew. |
| Cacique Caribe | 31 Mar 2018 3:11 a.m. PST |
Giles Thanks, I'll check it out. How-not-to films can be exasperating, or fun, depending on how they are done. By the way, I just came across this article with our scientists reassuring us that they would take all the necessary precautions to protect us from any accidental contamination of our planet: link I think I recall reading similar assurances when scientists started playing with African bees in Brazil, and on other similar containment situations. Dan |
| PzGeneral | 31 Mar 2018 6:01 a.m. PST |
Ryan Reynolds is in the movie "Life"…..not Matt Damon. He is in "The Martian"… |
| mwindsorfw | 31 Mar 2018 7:10 a.m. PST |
Would we stop colonizing because of a hostile bug? No. Whether it is the U.S., E.U., China, or Russia, someone it going to invent and use bug spray in the name of progress. |
| zoneofcontrol | 31 Mar 2018 7:25 a.m. PST |
The Bug is already replicating here on TMP. |
 StoneMtnMinis | 31 Mar 2018 8:10 a.m. PST |
zoc  |
| StoneMtnMinis | 31 Mar 2018 8:11 a.m. PST |
Also, we have nothing to fear as our global warming will kill off any alien bugs  |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 31 Mar 2018 9:41 a.m. PST |
zoneofcontrol for the win. |
| Giles the Zog | 31 Mar 2018 12:49 p.m. PST |
@PzGeneral – you're right it was Jake Gyllenhaal…sort of says it all when you can't even get the lead actor right ! |
| Zephyr1 | 31 Mar 2018 3:20 p.m. PST |
After a few years of human spacecraft venting waste tanks while in orbit (which seems to be procedure around our own planet), those Martian critters will be fighting for their own lives… ;-) |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 Apr 2018 2:54 a.m. PST |
Who knows? Maybe it could spawn (pardon the pun) an entirely new brand of documentaries, perhaps a return of the series "Monsters Inside Me". :) Dan
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 Legion 4 | 03 Apr 2018 2:54 p.m. PST |
"Nuk'm from Orbit … It's the only way to be sure" … |
| Cacique Caribe | 05 Apr 2018 12:42 p.m. PST |
Lol. My thought exactly! Dan |
rebases some old soldiers.
