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Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker
Asimov wrote about this years ago with the Robot books -- people who had left Earth ("Spacers" if memory serves) had so insulated themselves from one another and from Earth-borne disease and germs that their immune systems atrophied to near uselessness. They'd wear special filters inside their nostrils when in another person's presence to remove pathogens.
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...or the frail, pale and brainy beings protected by their hermetically sealed, mighty robot shells.
Sorta like a condom. <-------attempt to bring back to subject line.