H wrote:Webb wrote:I completely agree with the quarantine. Have you ever read War of the Worlds (or seen the good movie or crappy movie based on it)?
Now that space tourism is coming closer to reality the customs check makes more sense. Everyone goes through it without exception. Now you're not going to see some bazillionaire space tourist say, "You let Neil Armstrong through, why not me?"
To further your information, as we become the space tourists, we may also be what needs be quarantined at the destinations...
rather like what happened to the native populations in the Americas when Europeans first made major contact...8)
...and the same goes for living organisms, (animals , birds, fish, insects, vegetation, etc), deposited in areas/places where they should not be!
..and as @H points out....the same goes for Humans!.....

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Paul.
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