Re: Alien habits and pet peeves

Quoting Roger Books <books@jumpspace.net>:

> On  7-Mar-02 at 08:30, Bell, Brian K (Contractor)
> (Brian.Bell@dscc.dla.mil)
> wrote: > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Sutherlands [mailto:nma@kda.attmil.ne.jp]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 08:09
> > To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> > Subject: Alien habits and pet peeves
> > 
> > [snip]
> >   (painted like lady bugs... dont laugh, lady bugs are some nasty
> > bloodthirsty insects.)
> > 
> > [Bri] And if they are like the japanese lady beatles that have
invaded
> us,
> > they are _impossible_ to get rid of. Kill all you want, they will
> make
> > more! 
> 
> Do you think we will ever figure out that intentionally importing
> someone elses fauna is a bad thing?  The accidental tourists
> are bad enough.

We did crash that probe into jupiter to avoid the theoretical chance it
might 
crash into Europa and any bacteria it might just possibly be carrying
could 
contaminate any hypothetical[1] biosphere there...

[1] Only hypothetical from our point of view of course; if they're there
they