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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6114187" data-attributes="member: 19675">No, I'm assuming bioscience advances alongside and apace with the spacefaring tech that gets us out to the asteroid belt and back with a big-ass rock in tow, targeting an alien civilization, in a timely fashion...which we also can't do right now.At a minimum, you would need an understanding of the Martian ecosystem sufficient to know what the pathogens that affected the sentient species were, knowing what vectors existed within their species &amp; culture, and so forth.&nbsp; IOW, everything necessary to weaponize a pathogen for humans- which we have done with anthrax and smallpox, as well as rice blast, which targets crops, not the creatures that eat them- INCLUDING testing.&nbsp; (Rice blast is nasty, because it is composed of over 200 crop destroying fungi, and a starving enemy is a defeated enemy.)At this time, we (probably) do not have any bioweapons as nasty as the 1918 flu.&nbsp; But part of that is because the massive funding that went into those programs largely dried up.&nbsp; Enough humans rediscovered their ethical grounding.&nbsp; There may be some secret/rogue labs still doing that research, but they are far and away the exception.But if the world were basically united on a path to genocidal destruction of an alien species you can bet dollars to donuts the funding would be there.&nbsp; Blank checks would be written. Requests for test subjects would be filled.My remarks about &quot;probulation&quot; were a joking nod to what the REAL aliens are doing in their first stages of investigating our biology in prep for their conquering of Earth. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 6114187, member: 19675"] No, I'm assuming bioscience advances alongside and apace with the spacefaring tech that gets us out to the asteroid belt and back with a big-ass rock in tow, targeting an alien civilization, in a timely fashion...which we also can't do right now. At a minimum, you would need an understanding of the Martian ecosystem sufficient to know what the pathogens that affected the sentient species were, knowing what vectors existed within their species & culture, and so forth. IOW, everything necessary to weaponize a pathogen for humans- which we [I]have[/I] done with anthrax and smallpox, as well as rice blast, which targets crops, not the creatures that eat them- [I]INCLUDING[/I] testing. (Rice blast is nasty, because it is composed of over 200 crop destroying fungi, and a starving enemy is a defeated enemy.) At this time, we (probably) do not have any bioweapons as nasty as the 1918 flu. But part of that is because the massive funding that went into those programs largely dried up. Enough humans rediscovered their ethical grounding. There may be some secret/rogue labs still doing that research, but they are far and away the exception. But if the world were basically united on a path to genocidal destruction of an alien species you can bet dollars to donuts the funding would be there. Blank checks would be written. Requests for test subjects would be filled. My remarks about "probulation" were a joking nod to what the REAL aliens are doing in their [I]first stages[/I] of investigating our biology in prep for their conquering of Earth. ;) [/QUOTE]

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