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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
HG Wells had that feature pretty prominently in one of his books, as I recall... It's astonishing that so few other sci-fi writers seem to think about this.
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Of course, the fly in Well's ointment was that no microbes of any type had ever evolved on Mars; a rather fantastic proposal. That the Martians could have been destroyed by Earth bacteria which was foreign to their systems is perfectly reasonable, but for a species to have evolved on a planet where no bacterial life of any kind had evolved is a stretch.