Habitat Contamination - Warning: Rambling Ahead!

On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 06:41 AM, Combs, Mike wrote:

> At one end of the spectrum we'll have habitats which are obsessive
> about
> keeping viruses, spores, etc. out of the habitat. Their residents may
> enjoy
> life without the common cold and some kinds of allergies

And when someone screws up and infection enters the habitat, a lot of
folks will die.

The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to make
orbital space colonies with ~500 times the surface area of the Earth in
usable real estate. See http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/
for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html