QUOTE(Yelekiah @ Sep 16 2005, 11:23 AM)
Right. And I'm sure they take great precautions. This sounds like a plot to a spooky movie.
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When the astronauts from the
Apollo 11 mission came back from the Moon, they had to spend time in de-contamination to make sure that they didn't carry any lunar microbes. NASA took this very seriously.
Personally, I am skeptical about an alien microbe wiping out all life on Earth. There are many problems it would have to face, not the least of which would be figuring out how to survive in a completely alien creature's gut.