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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6851165" data-attributes="member: 177">HIV does have issues with open air.&nbsp; But, more importantly, HIV is a virus, and as such it is tailored to usurp the cellular machinery of its host to reproduce.&nbsp; IN HIV's case, the machinery must also be within a particular The chance that your cellular machinery matches the machinery of life from another planet is... miniscule.&nbsp; I mean, Spock being half-human be darned, the chance that evolution got them to synch up so closely so that we are using the same codes and pieces to build proteins as something that evolved on another planet is not really something we need to be concerned with.&nbsp; So, viruses (and their alien analogs) are not a concern.It is only bacteria and their analogs we are concerned with - things that can replicate on their own, that don't need to borrow cellular machinery, and just happen to really like the environment inside your body to do it in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6851165, member: 177"] HIV does have issues with open air. But, more importantly, HIV is a virus, and as such it is tailored to usurp the cellular machinery of its host to reproduce. IN HIV's case, the machinery must also be within a particular The chance that your cellular machinery matches the machinery of life from another planet is... miniscule. I mean, Spock being half-human be darned, the chance that evolution got them to synch up so closely so that we are using the same codes and pieces to build proteins as something that evolved on another planet is not really something we need to be concerned with. So, viruses (and their alien analogs) are not a concern. It is only bacteria and their analogs we are concerned with - things that can replicate on their own, that don't need to borrow cellular machinery, and just happen to really like the environment inside your body to do it in. [/QUOTE]

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