Talk:List of Medical Risks - Revision history

Strangelv at 13:08, 18 October 2008

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	:That said, the seeming unlikelihood would be an argument to place in such an article. Counterargument to put in that article: Assuming adequate separation between domestic microbes and invading Terrestrial life, whether or not a given microbe was evolved to be pathogenic is irrelevant: whether or not it has an immediate opportunity to fill a pathogenic niche would be by pure chance. Also, just because an interaction may be bad and kill the microbe, doesn't mean it's good for the terrestrial multicellular organism either... -- [[User:Strangelv\|Strangelv]] 11:43, 17 October 2008 (UTC)		:That said, the seeming unlikelihood would be an argument to place in such an article. Counterargument to put in that article: Assuming adequate separation between domestic microbes and invading Terrestrial life, whether or not a given microbe was evolved to be pathogenic is irrelevant: whether or not it has an immediate opportunity to fill a pathogenic niche would be by pure chance. Also, just because an interaction may be bad and kill the microbe, doesn't mean it's good for the terrestrial multicellular organism either... -- [[User:Strangelv\|Strangelv]] 11:43, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

			:The proposed article could definitely have a better name, admittedly... -- [[User:Strangelv\|Strangelv]] 13:08, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Strangelv: two nitpicks with that...

2008-10-17T11:43:30Z

two nitpicks with that...

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	There is much more of a risk of the colonists contaminating Mars, then there is of Mars contaminating		There is much more of a risk of the colonists contaminating Mars, then there is of Mars contaminating
	the colonists. Such worrys likley belong in the realm of science fiction. [[User:T.Neo\|T.Neo]] 07:45, 16 October 2008 (UTC)		the colonists. Such worrys likley belong in the realm of science fiction. [[User:T.Neo\|T.Neo]] 07:45, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

			:If it's inconsistent with scientific knowledge then it's not really science fiction. 8) ...or at least not GOOD science fiction (old science fiction gets a free ride in that it's adhering to obsolete scientific knowledge).

			:That said, the seeming unlikelihood would be an argument to place in such an article. Counterargument to put in that article: Assuming adequate separation between domestic microbes and invading Terrestrial life, whether or not a given microbe was evolved to be pathogenic is irrelevant: whether or not it has an immediate opportunity to fill a pathogenic niche would be by pure chance. Also, just because an interaction may be bad and kill the microbe, doesn't mean it's good for the terrestrial multicellular organism either... -- [[User:Strangelv\|Strangelv]] 11:43, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

T.Neo: New page: Since there are no complex liforms on Mars to infect, native life would not have become pathogenic. There is much more of a risk of the colonists contaminating Mars, then there is of Mars ...

2008-10-16T07:45:03Z

New page: Since there are no complex liforms on Mars to infect, native life would not have become pathogenic. There is much more of a risk of the colonists contaminating Mars, then there is of Mars ...

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Since there are no complex liforms on Mars to infect, native life would not have become pathogenic.
There is much more of a risk of the colonists contaminating Mars, then there is of Mars contaminating
the colonists. Such worrys likley belong in the realm of science fiction. [[User:T.Neo|T.Neo]] 07:45, 16 October 2008 (UTC)