IT was a hot summer day, but I was chilled to the bone to read this
subheading: “No lab on Earth can cope with what might be lurking in Martian soil”
(Â鶹´«Ã½, 9 June, p 10).
If NASA scientists bring back
samples of soil from Mars that are contaminated with alien life, we could all be
seriously affected. I wrote to Lord Sainsbury, the science minister, suggesting
that although Britain can do little about it, we should at least be talking with
our American colleagues about how they intend to safeguard us Earthlings.
Sainsbury said that he takes…
