Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sgi!daisy!wooding
From: wooding@daisy.UUCP (Mike Wooding)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Discovery - UFO Close Encounter?
Summary: sharing space
Message-ID: <2880@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 04:03:54 GMT
References: <4440@drivax.UUCP> <7751@pyr.gatech.EDU> <5373@lynx.UUCP> <7769@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Daisy Systems, Mt. View, CA
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In article <7769@pyr.gatech.EDU>, ccoprmd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Matthew T. DeLuca) writes:
> What I mean by 'not equipped for alien contact' is just that.  What do aliens
> breathe?  Are they radioactive?  Do they have microbes that could cause disease
> in humans?  What do they eat?  Before you let aliens in the shuttle with you,
 ...
> how to speak with them.

 I think contact refers to communications, not sharing a space suit :-)
 The former of course could and would be done each in the "comfort" of
 their own environment. The latter would depend on the success of the
 former:-) As for being prepared to "speak" to THEM, my guess is the person
 who makes 1st contact will be the most prepared. Even if they don't have
 a degree in alien languages :-)

 m wooding