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If: extra-terrestrial life exists How can we, with any certainty, guarantee the human remains won't be a virus or viralphage to them? I think we should pause
by butlike 3y ago
If: extra-terrestrial life exists
How can we, with any certainty, guarantee the human remains won't be a virus or viralphage to them?
I think we should pause and think about jettisoning organic material into space.
- mr_toad 3y agoViruses rely heavily on cellular machinery for replication, and whatever machinery alien lifeforms have is likely to be too different for the virus to propagate. Bacteria might be more likely to survive in an alien environment.