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That'd be something, people travel for 30 years to a distant planet, die four days later because something in the atmosphere we didn't account for and did not filter properly, or a crystalline fungus that eats away our suits.



Happens a lot in (bad) science fiction, and parody thereof.

People land on a planet, go "I wonder if the atmosphere is breathable?", then open their helmet and take a deep breath.

But I think by the time anyone is arriving on a planet around another star, it will be with biotechnology that allows adaptation to a rather wide variety of environments.




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