Vulnerability of Space Settlements to Attacks

Vacination aginast common dieseases.Quarantine and extensive testing to find dieseases a new arrival may have.El Al like security to find if a person is trying to bring biohazards in their luggage.Nano-technology.The security measures used will depend on the balance between security and freedom that the habitat wants (usually decided by the people who live there).--- Monart Pon wrote:
That's a terrifying thought, a bio-attack on a space settlement. I wonderwhat would be the defence against that? Have everyone don spacesuits andvent out the atmosphere, and then re-plant the ecosystem after? (Just kidding,mabye :~)
Monart
Starship Aurora

Bill wrote:
Actually a space colony has to always be better prepared for
punctures. You will get small meteors, breaking windows, puncturing
holes, sandblasting the outer hull, etc... Any design would haveto
have contigencies, for punctures. In fact you would expect automatic
systems to mobilize to minimize the damage a puncture would produce.
For example an automaically deployable 10 m radius half shell tocover
punctures until it can be fixed.
The stuff the terorists will probably use is biotech. In fact Iam
very surprised that terrorists haven't exploited this avenue. Itis a
technology that is very easy to fund, fairly simple to research,with
most of the equipment accessable at your grocery or drug store.

--- In spacesettlers@y..., Monart Pon wrote:
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That's a terrifying thought, a bio-attack on a space settlement. I wonderwhat would be the defence against that? Have everyone don spacesuits andvent out the atmosphere, and then re-plant the ecosystem after? (Just kidding,mabye :~)
Monart
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Bill wrote:

Actually a space colony has to always be better prepared for
punctures. You will get small meteors, breaking windows, puncturing
holes, sandblasting the outer hull, etc... Any design would haveto
have contigencies, for punctures. In fact you would expect automatic
systems to mobilize to minimize the damage a puncture would produce.
For example an automaically deployable 10 m radius half shell tocover
punctures until it can be fixed.
The stuff the terorists will probably use is biotech. In fact Iam
very surprised that terrorists haven't exploited this avenue. Itis a
technology that is very easy to fund, fairly simple to research,with
most of the equipment accessable at your grocery or drug store.

--- In spacesettlers@y..., Monart Pon
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