User blog comment:WolfgangBSC/The Random Chat Room/@comment-10905876-20160331174429

@Harmon: Wasn't it already established pretty damn specifically that having pre existing life on Mars suddenly woken up by the terraforming project be an absolute disaster for all Earth based life living there?! If not, allow me to reiterate: If pre-existing life on Mars becomes reanimated by the Aneph terraforming project, among that life will be millions of varieties of microorganisms, many of which will likely be harmful to unprepared human immune sytems. With millions of colonists, there would be millions of casualties as an epidemic of unprecedented scale ravages the entire planet! And that's assuming it only stays on Mars! What if these diseases, for which we have no defense, infects the crew of a ship? It could spread, planet to planet then. The entire human race could end up at risk. Do you really want to have all human navies die, just because you want some stupid ostrich?!

NO! You cannot have this stupid bird!