• saigot@lemmy.ca
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    23 days ago

    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/