Habitat Contamination - Warning: Rambling Ahead!

Why?

--- In spacesettlers@y..., Al Globus wrote:
>
> On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 08:06 PM, victoriatangoman
>
> > We've all seen reports that the Habitat environment will be able
to
> > keep out weeds, pests, etc by careful screening at the entry
docks.
>
> According to memory: when Biosphere II was closed they
inadvertantly
> closed in some birds. These particular birds were protected by
law
> from being held in captivity. They tried to catch them and
failed, but
> were able to convince the authorities not to arrest anyone.
>
> My bet: there will be plenty of weeds, pest, etc. in space
colonies.
>
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> The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid because they weren't
> space-faring. It's almost as if Gaia then thought "Well,
dinosaurs
> worked pretty well, but space-faring is necessary. Maybe I'll
should
> try mammals this time." Humanity is now developing systems to
detect
> and deflect asteroids, and could build orbital space colonies to
spread