• darthelmet@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Die of some random common illness we don’t have any antibodies for.

    Hopefully a species advanced enough to master interstellar travel would be mindful of that kind of thing though. I suppose at least they would probably be protecting themselves against that, so maybe it would go both ways?

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      11 hours ago

      Our strongest EMP rays did nothing to them, but in the end they succumbed to a simple stick.

      There is also just the possibility that their common illness affects something biologically they possess that we do not.

      I too hope the protections would go both ways. I guess it depends if whatever they’d exhaust is toxic to us