Frederick Moxley of the Strategic Threat Analysis and Research (STAR) Laboratories in Idaho and Anthony Ricciardi of McGill University in Canada published their proposal in the journal Ambio, calling for a dedicated extraterrestrial biocontainment facility on the lunar surface.

The key point of their argument is that any facility on Earth cannot ensure complete containment of any alien life form in the event of an accidental spillage, but isolation from Earth that exists on the moon naturally serves as their so-called “quarantine shield".

It means that all samples........

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