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Newsgroups: alt.alien.research,alt.alien.visitors,alt.ufo.reports,alt.paranet.ufo
Subject: Re: viruses and bacterias introduced by extraterrestial
From: mtauson@nauticom.net (Michael Tauson)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 14:37:55 GMT

In article <pjvm.104.000075B2@euronet.nl>,
   pjvm@euronet.nl (Pieter_J._van_Megchelen) wrote:
->>        This sort of leads to another question, though.  Presuming that 
->>alien physiologies are more or less like ours and their digestive system 
->>works on the same principal as ours, wouldn't it be reasonable to believe 
->>that there might be a problem with them eating food that is native to 
->>Earth?  
->Well, I 've read this thread, and honestly I think the only anwer (though a 
->silly one, I must admit) is that we just don't know. 

	THis is the one answer that I've seen that makes sense.  It's also the 
one ansswer that the least number of people will find acceptable.

->sorry to disappoint you, but as long as there are no data about alien 
->bodies, anything said is just speculation. Intelligent speculation no doubt 
->has been going on in this newsgroup, but what's the use without any facts?

	Disappoint me?  Me disappointed by an _INTELLIGENT_ answer?  Hell, no, 
I'm not disappointed.  I'm delighted, in fact!

	I write science fiction (and hope one of these days to fool a 
publisher into buying some of my work <G>) and speculation is part of the 
trade.  I dive into newsgroups like this one for ideas, and partake at times 
on a purely speculative basis.  (And, sometimes, as in the "23" thread, I do 
so with a touch of unappreciated humor in what is often too serious a group.) 

	Speculation - as long as it is treated as speculation and not fact - 
is healthy and can be fun.  It's when the distinction between the two blur 
that the problems come up.

	But, you're right; we simply do not _know_.

	Again, my thanks.

Michael (who may get a sig one of these days but not today.)


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