survivor wrote:An advanced race, whom by choice are [one] death from the creator, And you suggest they may need to inoculate.Hmmm...that's funny.
Guys,Rezo wrote:they dont need to inoculate, theyve got those really neat color-rooms!
Read the book. In fact, just read the first chapter when Michel is taken aboard their ship. You’ll see the biological threat we pose to them. It has nothing to do with their spirituality superiority. As I suggested, it’s much like any of us travelling to less sanitary locales.
‘It is very simple. We come from a planet bacteriologically different from Earth, which, for us, is a veritable culture medium. Thus, in order to contact you, I was obliged to take this basic precaution. You, yourself, were a danger to me but you are no longer.’
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‘During the very short time the cabin was yellow and then blue, eighty per cent of the dangerous bacteria in you was destroyed. Then perhaps you felt a coolness in the air, similar to when an air conditioner is working; this was another form of disinfection by ... let’s call it radiation, although that is not the correct word - it cannot be translated into any Earth language. In this way, I have been disinfected one hundred per cent, but you still have enough bacteria to harm us considerably. I am going to give you these two pills, and in three hours you will be able to consider yourself as ‘pure’ as one of us.’
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‘I have given you a special drug in order to cleanse your body of all bacteria that is dangerous to us…’ )