Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days agoIf Peaceful Aliens beamed down. Wouldn't we pose as much problem as them being out immunities and diseases are different from them? And vice versa? So we could accidentally kill one?message-squaremessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down14
arrow-up133arrow-down1message-squareIf Peaceful Aliens beamed down. Wouldn't we pose as much problem as them being out immunities and diseases are different from them? And vice versa? So we could accidentally kill one?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days agomessage-square21linkfedilink
minus-squaresaigot@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·23 days agoI think it’s a safe bet that an alien race that has figured out FTL and how to identity inhabited planets has also figured out germ theory even if they somehow had a biology similar enough to us to be at risk in the first place. We were pretty careful with the apollo astronauts when they returned to earth on the off chance some dangerous space virus survived on the moon. https://spacecenter.org/apollo-mission-quarantine-procedures/
minus-squareDon_Dickle@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·22 days agoHope you don’t mind. But everyone who is reading this read the spacecenter.org the guy or gal linked its a good read. Thank you sir or mam
I think it’s a safe bet that an alien race that has figured out FTL and how to identity inhabited planets has also figured out germ theory even if they somehow had a biology similar enough to us to be at risk in the first place.
We were pretty careful with the apollo astronauts when they returned to earth on the off chance some dangerous space virus survived on the moon. https://spacecenter.org/apollo-mission-quarantine-procedures/
Hope you don’t mind. But everyone who is reading this read the spacecenter.org the guy or gal linked its a good read. Thank you sir or mam